Mechanics and ELD's, how is a road test logged?

The driver of the truck would log out of the ELD. The test drive would be an unassigned driving event, and the driver of the truck wouldn’t claim it.

In the United States the mechanic wouldn’t need a log unless they left a 150 mile radius of where they report for work. I’m not sure of the rules in Canada.

 

During our last audit, I was informed that any vehicle movement has to be logged..
We are less then 160km radius and return to the same spot daily so paper for us.
And I'm supposed to log all time/miles.
Days I drive and wrench I just stay on duty all day, and write unit #s and mileages in.
If intraprovincial in Alberta, paper is all you need anyways..
If your federal in canada, supposed to be eld.
I have no idea how that works.

 

I test drove customers trucks pretty often. I wasn't trucking at that time, so not certain, but none ever mentioned a problem with their ELD because of it, and none ever asked me to do anything because of it beforehand.

I never logged any of it either.

 

In our system we have a "shop driver". We assign the drive time to that and scan a copy of the repair.

 

Whenever I was taking my truck to the shop once there I’d log on duty for a few minutes and note “dropping truck at Peterbilt in Lincoln NE” in the remarks, and I’d log out. I have no idea what the companies in charge of my logs did with the unassigned drive time but I never had any comments about how I was handling it.

My only experience with an audit was at the flatbed company I drove for in Montana and back then he was told he had to maintain a driver file for any mechanic with a CDL same as the rest of us drivers.

 

That’s what I do as said above. If something happened gotta mark it wasn’t you. Just a layer of protection for the driver I think.

 

I also turn eld off and remove the bluetooth truck connection.