logbook question

Well, my hubby runs pretty much completely legal. With his company, he has to, because they check the logs with recording of the qualcomm.

Who do you run for?

 

Yep, with Werner, you don't have a choice. My hubby actually started with them for his training, and stayed with them a few months. Most of the drivers referred to the electronic logs as the 'Shock Collar' because the darn thing would start beeping at you when you were getting close to the time you needed to be shut down by.

 

I think the people that made the HOS rules have ever stepped foot in a truck. 11 hours is cool if you dont have to stop and pick up during the day. By the time you drop off a load, pick up another one, eat, shower, fuel, copy and fax bills and whatever else, you only have like 5 hours of drive time left but they want you to run 600 miles by the next morning. If you got two or three days to make the trip you can manage but if you pick and drop every day and are running decent miles, its almost impossible to stay legal.

They dont take into consideration detention, travel time or none of the fun stuff. I do belive it should be regulated, but not at the current terms we have. It forces people to fudge the books just to make any money. Sucks

 

I agree with you completely on that. I'd like to see a return to the rules that were in place back when I was driving. You could split your time more and not be penalized for having to break up your driving time. Ideally I'd like to see the old way of being able to split the drive time and keep the 34 hour reset.

The company my hubby drives for gives you almost too much time to make a run. Majority of the time he has no problems making delivery appointments, and often has them try and move his delivery time up.

 

This is the company I was set on applying for first...not so sure now, unless you just got a "bad" trainer. I'd like to learn how to properly log in training, then decide for myself if I do some fudging down the road...but ####, if they teach you how to drive illegal, your first run in with the law, you'll probably be screwed

 

I think there are some members that do drive for Millis that may end up popping in here.

Just how much fudging is he having you do? Is it just 15 minutes here or there, or worse?

 

check out my pretrip tips post in this forum as far as the log goes it seem to be the nature of the beast