
08.13.2007
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| Drivers for JDC Logistics falsify logbooks Drivers for JDC Logistics falsify logbooks August-2007 Franklin truck firm's fines among highest in industry Drivers for JDC Logistics falsify logbooks, drive too many hours, breaking rules designed to prevent deadly accidents Quote:
Around dusk on June 13 last year, a driver for JDC Logistics Inc. on a run out of De Pere pulled off the highway in Remington, Ind., and crawled into his truck's sleeper berth for a good night's rest.
Or so his logbook said.
In fact, he was on the road in northern Illinois, heading toward Chicago.
Two days earlier, a JDC driver recorded in his log that he spent the night in Fenton, Mo. In fact, he was rolling east on I-294, some 300 miles away.
And the week before, a JDC driver paid a toll at Markham, Ill., at 5:42 p.m. His logbook showed that he got to his destination in Bellefontaine, Ohio, 2 1/2 hours later. To do that, he would have had to have crossed northern Indiana on U.S. Highway 30 and driven well into Ohio - all at 100 mph.
At Franklin-based JDC, a large trucking company focused on hauling parts to auto manufacturers, this sort of tinkering with logs wasn't unusual.
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