Logging

What do you log if you sleep under the truck?

 

I call BS on this one. Till you actually post the actual violation it did not happen!

 

I already posted it twice in the last year and a half, wow

 

I submitted a question to the FMCSA on Wennesday on this issue. I provided a mod here the question reference number and will also work with said mod to authenticate the answer as genuine. I suspect because it is a guidance type question it may take a week or 2 to get answered Until that answer I will NOT believe anybody with tall tales about a big bad DOT type that wrote a driver a ticket for taking a potty break. You want me to believe it POST the #### inspection form and ticket. Is that too hard to understand?

 

395.8(2) says the words "Off Duty resting in a Sleeper Berth".

The regs go on to stress that all changes of duty status must and shall be logged.

The regs go on to stress log falsification will not be tolerated.

Now, I know we are talking about differences in sleeper and off duty time in the eyes of the DOT as per the original poster's question, but I did a quick search and found that @striker was given a violation one time when he was driving, pulled over for a potty break but left the log on the Drive line and was busted at the scale for log falsification.

Perhaps @striker can come in and shed some more light on that event as it pertains to our debate here.

 

I said this in the other thread and will repeat it here. There is a huge difference between implied and regulatory.

 

You also like to imply that people are liars and must prove to your almightyness otherwise.

 

I think this debate can be better understood in relationship to what you just said. Some of the new people in trucking do not remember the days when most company drivers drove teams. The FMCSA can never come up with guidance proactively like this. The FMCSA has not issued any guidance on this because of the fact as allow me stated the original intent of sleepers was for team operations. IF the states do start popping drivers for misusing line 2 at some point the FMCSA is going to have to make guidance available for single driver use of a sleeper.

 

Guidance you ask? Here it is my friend.

Regulations Section

Refer to Question 26 *drops mic*

Question 26: May a driver record sleeper berth time as off-duty time on line one of the record of duty status?

Guidance:

No. The driver’s record of duty status must accurately reflect the driver’s activities.