Just some of the stupid things I see

You also need receipts to prove where you have been...
Say you reset at a motel...You get a receipt that has dates and times...Real clear...
But what if you park at your parent's house and reset?....
You only have your logbook...and in some cases...some DOT will tell you the logbook "ain't proof enough"....

The "paper trail" can help you, or hurt you....you choose.....

 

That's too funny!

Sounds like an officer that told me one time, "Your falsifying your log book, there is no way it took you that long to get from there to here".

 

Hey, DB! Can I have you bring me to court if I sue my ex-wife? I could use that kind of luck!!

 

Since when are you required to show a receipt for anything? Receipts can be used as proof but I have never been required to show one.

 

if you dont want a reciept you dont get one---nobody can force you to show a reciept if you dont have any---
no requirement to have them

 

I have friends all over the country and many times I stay with them for a restart or a 10 and I log it as off duty.
I have had some people here at this site try to tell me that it is up to me to prove that I actually stayed with someone if an officer asks where I stayed for my break.

I have been asked in the past and have simply replied that "I stayed with friends" and it has never been persued further. My question to you is...How would you deal with a driver that logged a restart far from his domicile as off duty with no documentation to back it up?

Do you even care whether it's logged as off duty or sleeper berth?

I had a DOT in Idaho tell me that I had to log a mixture of sleeper berth and off duty to be legal on a restart because no one stays in the sleeper for 34 hours straight and that because I'm away from home I can't log it as solid off duty.

So I asked him...Since my duty status changes have to be logged as they happen and that the act of logging them is work related and will interrupt my 34 causing me to have to start it again...How am I supposed to log these changes and not have my restart last for the rest of my life?

He just looked at me for a minute and handed me back my book...

Realisticly...Off duty and sleeper berth have always sort of been interchangeable in a solo driver operation as far as I know, But the way some of these younger DOT cops act these days...Well, You just never know!

Any comments?

 

Like I said....
"Paper Trail"....

Let's say you pulled over for a dinner break at 6 pm on Monday the 12th (Arbitrary date...).....and you paid with your ATM card and got a receipt..... You left at 7:30 pm....

Two days later on the 14th you get pulled over by a DOT because a Four-wheeler called in saying a truck that matched yours hit him in the parking lot of the same restaurant at 8:45 pm and then took off.....

Your log book says that you logged on Line 1 for an hour and a half.....but the officer says that's not proof enough because the guy claimed he saw you get in your truck at 8:40...

So you take out the receipt and show it to the officer.....He notices that it has both the date and time of the transaction at 7:25 pm.......

The Four-wheeler has just been caught in a lie and you can go about your business....

Remember....It's important to "CYA".....There are Four-wheelers out there who earn a living suing drivers.....