Logging Multiple Stops In a Short Period of Time

You can combine all the stops in the same city into one stop, say 5 stops in Los Angeles you could show the total of all the stops combined together of say 2.50 hours, then .75 to Pomona and 4 more stops in Pomona together add up to another 2 hours, and so on.

 

As long as each stop is within the same city (address) the driving time (line 3) between each address, can be "accumulated", and the same with the delivery (line 4). With the ones for Line 4, put the accumulated time for all stops in one group (4 deliveries, 15 minutes each, equals 60 minutes) that way you aren't line jumping so much...but they do need to be in the same city by their address...there could be an "agriculture" exemption for the city location to be less restrictive.

Hopefully, "Dieselbear", or Mike_MD will see this thread and be able to give you precise info...but I am pretty sure your freind is telling you right!

 

I'm by far no expert, but in my CDL school I'm attending we just addressed this type of issue in our logbook session last week. The video we watched suggested adding up all of your drive time and all of your on duty time and just logging each as one consecutive session. So, instead of a thousand up and downs of 15 minutes each, you would just have 1 driving time of 3 hours and 1 on duty time of 3 hours, or whatever the actual times were.

Check the FMCSR to be sure...

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Edit...wow. Guess we have a consensus.

 

highflight...be careful on this one...driving local or OTR, the delivery addresses must be the same city (zip code) to "clump" hours. That is why in my post to the OP, I made mention of a possible "agriculture" exemption since he is driving a milk tanker. Some (many actually) rules in logging have varied changes due to the agriculture exemptions...would be a good topic to bring up at your truck school>

 

But what are the physical addresses of each farm...are they possibly in the same "city" or zip code...

Another option is...Line 3 (after pre-trip and load) drive to first delivery...then keep track of the drive time between farms, put the stops in one block (15 minutes for each stop) then the time it took to drive between all the stops, enter that amount on Line 3 previous to the time driving from last stop to base.

So: Line 4...pre-trip/load
Line 3...one hour to first stop
Line 4...clump all stops (15 minutes each) note it as your friend does
Line 3...driving time between stops
Line 3...driving time back to base.

I should have you very confused by this time!