Question for the bears here!

They can, they have, and the DOT when auditing a company, can and will cite the driver for falsification even after the occurrence. Even a scale inspection can hit you with falsification within the 8 days when they examine your logs and re-track your route and traveled times.

 

Maybe..............maybe not. I guess you have to ask yourself, do you feel lucky?

 

Why am I picturing Clint Eastwood.

 

Very.

 

I might shave a few minutes off for a traffic jam but a big storm like that I'd just log it like it was. Something like that's beyond my give up point. Can't be helped.

 

I think every driver with paper logs squeezes a few minutes here or there every day. The issue is drivers squeezing their time into 90-100mph situations that are preposterously illegal and rather dangerous if they don't get enough rest before taking off again.

As for the OP, I guess the bear can't regulate whether you're driving safely or unsafely on roads they have no jurisdiction over. If the speed limit in Utah is 75 and you logged an average of 70mph but were really doing 25mph, they can't say you were lying without other actual proof. Driving 70mph may have been extremely unsafe, but if you claim you did it, your log book says you did it.

Unethical. And one of the biggest reasons we're going to EOBRs is from all the drivers doing crap like that.

My company did say since we have prepass, ezpass, etc that they can peg the times you go under the sensor to when you've logged driving. So yes, they can get you if you aren't logged as driving when you go under those sensors. Or, if you've driven too quickly between two of the sensors. They'll never catch that on a roadside (most likely), but on a company audit they probably would have no problems matching it up with scale tickets, fueling, time-stamped bills, etc.