Let's be safe. Safety supervisor Q&A

QUESTION ABOUT E - LOGS

What are my options for going back and forth between E-logs and Short haul exception depending on what I'm doing that month?

Simple as that.... turn E-logs off and run short haul when around town and when I go OTR ( after 7 days ) turn E-logs on?

 

Not OP, but Keep Truckin let's you save multiple HOS rules so you can swap on the fly.

 

Check it out:

 

Well I currently use Keep Trucking when going OTR but I don't have the plug in - I just use the APP ( and 90% of the time keep it under the 7 day rule )

I like Keep Trucking for the fact ( without the truck plug in ) you can "edit" the logs and it doesn't keep the history.

 

How do you go OTR without being plugged into the ECM? I mean we did that in the oilfield, but we also didn't really care about DOT rules, lol. I thought you had to connect to the ECM to be compliant?

 

If you only run 7 days a month you don't need to plug in. I always plan my OTR days at the end of a month....

EG. last 7 days in Feb, first 7 days in March gives me 14 days OTR under short haul exemption.

It's really just playing the system.

 

Gotcha.

 

From my understanding, the exception you’re using is no more than 8 days in a 30 day cycle.

 

Looks like the one I saw today on hwy 54