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The requirement is listed in the definition of on duty time.

On-duty time means all time from the time a driver begins to work or is required to be in readiness to work until the time the driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work. On-duty time shall include:

(1) All time at a plant, terminal, facility, or other property of a motor carrier or shipper, or on any public property, waiting to be dispatched, unless the driver has been relieved from duty by the motor carrier;

(2) All time inspecting, servicing, or conditioning any commercial motor vehicle at any time;

(3) All driving time as defined in the term driving time;

(4) All time in or on a commercial motor vehicle, other than:

(i) Time spent resting in or on a parked vehicle, except as otherwise provided in §397.5 of this subchapter;

(ii) Time spent resting in a sleeper berth; or

(iii) Up to 2 hours riding in the passenger seat of a property-carrying vehicle moving on the highway immediately before or after a period of at least 8 consecutive hours in the sleeper berth;

(5) All time loading or unloading a commercial motor vehicle, supervising, or assisting in the loading or unloading, attending a commercial motor vehicle being loaded or unloaded, remaining in readiness to operate the commercial motor vehicle, or in giving or receiving receipts for shipments loaded or unloaded;

(6) All time repairing, obtaining assistance, or remaining in attendance upon a disabled commercial motor vehicle;

(7) All time spent providing a breath sample or urine specimen, including travel time to and from the collection site, to comply with the random, reasonable suspicion, post-crash, or follow-up testing required by part 382 of this subchapter when directed by a motor carrier;

(8) Performing any other work in the capacity, employ, or service of, a motor carrier; and

(9) Performing any compensated work for a person who is not a motor carrier.

eCFR — Code of Federal Regulations


I log what it takes. Sometimes 15 minutes when it is the same trailer I went to sleep attached to and I just need to verify its condition to half an hour or 45 minutes when I start bobtail and have to go find my load on the yard. If I were to ever end up in court or in a deposition again I have the ability to demonstrate I take the condition of my equipment seriously.

People who log 15 minutes every morning and flag a 2 minute post will be eaten alive in a court room. Further people who practice such lazy inspections are the reason I can usually walk through any truck stop and find an OOS issue on 1 out of 4 trucks. I really wish the DOT would do their #### job and start citing and removing these "drivers".

 

I drive team, my pretrip inspections, and those of my teammate last between 15-20 minutes each every shift, granted I did not think mounting the license plate was crucial, considering the truck is new, and we got the plate a couple of days beforehand, I did notice the spring guards sliding, I would just slide them back in place. I do not know how they prevent kinks in a heavy duty rubber airline, but I used some electrical tape to keep them in place.

 

Handles will secure them as well. $20 bucks or less if ordered online.

Makes the lines easier to handle { a lot of drop and hook in the ice makes having them a necessity} and prevents pinching at the glad hand.

 

396.11 requires the company require you the driver to prepare a report on any deficiencies.

You the driver. Not your co-drive, not the factory, not some mysterious service available in Timbuktu. You are required.


Good luck arguing you are not required. Most LEO's are going to say "Press hard there are three copies" and most judges if you could even get in front of one on that ticket are going to add some court costs for wasting the courts time.

In a civil suit it will just add zeros to the judgement against you.

 

Stop quoting me @06driver I told you I no longer wish to be part of this stupid debate. I'm out of it.

 

That makes sense now.

 

Okie dokie

 

If you are going to quote a regulation, you might want to read the regulation. Here it is for you to look at (minus the list of parts to check to make it easier to read)

§396.11 Driver vehicle inspection report(s).
(a) Equipment provided by motor carrier. (1) Report required. Every motor carrier shall require its drivers to report, and every driver shall prepare a report in writing at the completion of each day's work on each vehicle operated, except for intermodal equipment tendered by an intermodal equipment provider. The report shall cover at least the following parts and accessories:
(Snipped)

(2) Report content. (i) The report must identify the vehicle and list any defect or deficiency discovered by or reported to the driver which would affect the safety of operation of the vehicle or result in its mechanical breakdown. If a driver operates more than one vehicle during the day, a report must be prepared for each vehicle operated. The driver of a passenger-carrying CMV subject to this regulation must prepare and submit a report even if no defect or deficiency is discovered by or reported to the driver; the drivers of all other commercial motor vehicles are not required to prepare or submit a report if no defect or deficiency is discovered by or reported to the driver.

(ii) The driver must sign the report. On two-driver operations, only one driver needs to sign the driver vehicle inspection report, provided both drivers agree as to the defects or deficiencies identified.

(3) Corrective action. (i) Prior to requiring or permitting a driver to operate a vehicle, every motor carrier or its agent shall repair any defect or deficiency listed on the driver vehicle inspection report which would be likely to affect the safety of operation of the vehicle.

(ii) Every motor carrier or its agent shall certify on the driver vehicle inspection report which lists any defect or deficiency that the defect or deficiency has been repaired or that repair is unnecessary before the vehicle is operated again.

(4) Retention period for reports. Every motor carrier shall maintain the driver vehicle inspection report, the certification of repairs, and the certification of the driver's review for three months from the date the written report was prepared.

(5) Exceptions. The rules in this section shall not apply to a private motor carrier of passengers (nonbusiness), a driveaway-towaway operation, or any motor carrier operating only one commercial motor vehicle.



Now read what is highlighted (and everything else). Yes, the driver has to do a DVIR paperwork report IF something is found and reported to the driver. Still no requirement for the driver to be the one doing the inspection.

 

I believe these are what @06driver is talking about. In any case it's what I would suggest. Even company drivers should probably get a pair and put them on. If you are changing out trucks it will only take 5 minutes to remove both.

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I do not know what those are, do they negate the need for spring guards?