DOT Inspection Violations, went off duty instead of sleeper berth

Most likely the DOT will be at your company in about a month and will go through your logs for the last 6 months looking for other violations. At least that's what happened to me in 2014 when I only took 9 hours off instead of 10.

 

Ashland? There isn’t an Ashford, OR.

 

While it is possible for this to happen in most cases it doesn't happen. @brian991219 and I both have mentioned this process in other comments. What generally happens is your company gets audited by the FMCSA and they come with a hit list of problem drivers identified from the FMCSA SMS data. Once the auditors identify themselves they ask for all the files on said drivers required under parts 391 and 395. This means if every I is not dotted and every T crossed in those records that carrier stands to receive a rather large fine AND be placed on probation if enough egregious violations are found then told they will return later to check for compliance. I drove for a carrier that was hit by the FMCSA and the later fallout. If these violations are not corrected the FMCSA will yank that carrier's numbers!

@mnmover if this happened to you most likely your name was on some kind of a hit list. It happens!

 

Bid Brother DOT will get with the company and creep through your last few months of logs, this is why always checking the truck is important, for example instead of drivers pissing in bottles while driving cause they are afraid to loose .30 cents, stop to piss and walk around your truck quick it will save you in the long run.

 

Not much you can do if a tire just blew, but the HOS should have been dealt with before you drove again. You should have called your employer and had the logs corrected if it was truly an error between off duty and sleeper birth. Now your company will have that mark on their record, and they may have something to say to you about it.

 

If your split sleeper didn’t take, elogs would have shown that you would be in violation before you logged on duty.

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE:
As soon as you saw something was wrong and you had zero hours to drive, log SLEEPER BERTH first, and that duty change would have allowed you to edit that error off duty time and change to sleeper berth. Set and save, and suddenly you would have your drive time.

 

Exactly M. The FMCSA can't possibly investigate every motor carrier with hours violations but if there is a pattern of violations or a truly egregious violation they can and will show up for an audit. Mainly if the carrier is at or near the intervention threshold for hours of service they will investigate or if it were part of a crash investigation. In the modern world they will conduct it remotely.