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Logbooks and where do they come from ?

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Powder Joints, Oct 4, 2014.

  1. Oct 4, 2014 #1
    Powder Joints

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    Not just a yarn we learned at the Great Lakes during training, the early days of sailing ships, the ship's records were written on shingles cut from logs. These shingles were hinged and opened like a book. The record was called the "log book." Later on, when paper was readily available and bound into books, the record maintained it name.

    SO EBORS must come from Christmas Tree..

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  3. Oct 4, 2014 #2
    Mrh2008

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    Coulda swore that log books come from under your mattress in the bunk...
     
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    Pedigreed Bulldog

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    From the book store!

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    I've always wanted to carry some of my old Forestry textbooks in the truck with me so that when a DOT occifer asks me for my "log book", I can respond "Which one would you like to see?" Of course he'll want to know what I mean by that (thinking I'm admitting to doing something wrong) and I'll simply start handing him the text books, telling him "This one will tell you how to grow the logs...this one explains how to measure the logs....this one will help you identify the logs...." No doubt he'll interrupt me to tell me that I misunderstood...that he needs to see my record of duty status, at which point I'll have to let him know I don't have one. I operate under the 100 air-mile exemption...don't work more than 12 hours, return home at the end of every shift, stay inside the 100 air-mile radius, and the company maintains a record of my hours worked.

    No telling how they'd take it, whether he'd have a sense of humor or not....and ticking off the wrong DOT man is like playing pinata with a hornets nest. Contrary to what you might have heard, I try to avoid doing either.
     
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