Creative logging 101...should be a class for that because u ain't making a living if u are completly honest...just sayin
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...64-new-optional-class-at-swift-terminals.html you mean like the thread i created a little while back? LOL. and it all depends. I log 100% honest 95% of the time. I'd say for every 20-25 loads, there is only 1 load where I'll arrive at the shipper early (i.e. the night before when my appt is for early the next morning), knowing i can take my 10 hr break. now during the 7th or 8th hour, i'll present myself to receiving, get assigned a door, back it in, and by the time they're done unloading, my 10 will be complete. Yeah, i know....i'll hear every joe blow who'll say they always log perfect, and give me a hard time. But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. but as far as the comment about having to cook your books in order to make a living, i dont buy it. there aren't many times i've gotta get creative, and i do just fine logging legal the rest of the 95% of the time.
Mr. Jones, you and I pretty much run our logs the same then. There is really no reason to cook your books all the time .
LOL I wasn't suggesting I or anyone should flagrantly cheat on their logs. What I am suggesting is that you occasionally have to do exactly what was just said (in a post above) to complete a load in a timely manner or get yourself some additional time and miles in a situation where they don't exixt. Again the point I wanted to make was you can't always be honest. I read somewhere once that said "he that hath not lied on his log book then let him cast the first stone"....just sayin
(ticketed) by who, POLICE, think, a non moving vilation, PLEASE, dickjones is WRIGHT, if under 7 minutes do not log it, you have new hires in the office and new hires in the truck, O MY GOD, i was think of joining swift in the spring but now it dosn't look good at all, and central refrigerated keeps there drivers out 4 weeks at a pop, i may have to just stay in this dam factory longer, is there a company with a brain out there please HALLER
This is confirmed true and accurate. I asked Safety about this rumor and she confirmed that it is true. She took a post it note, drew a line down the center vertically then a line horizontally in the center, in each square she wrote one thing: Off Duty Sleeper Driving On Duty Holding the paperwork in your hand to carry into the truck stop for scanning can only be classified as On Duty. You're not Driving. You're not in the Sleeper. You're not Off Duty because you're holding company paperwork (trips and/or logs). I think for my next home time I will draw a continuous line On Duty Not Driving for the whole time except for the final 34 hours.
Think you had better double check that information. And your safety person must be a newb. line 4, on duty not driving, is the same as line 1, off duty.....they are descriptions as to your relation to your TRUCK/TRAILER and or what you're hauling. When you go to 'off duty', you are basicly telling whoever looks at your logbook (i.e. DOT) that at the time indicated, you were not conducting the business of the transfer of goods for the company listed on your BOL for the company you're employed with. Even that page you are to sign saying that the company gives you permission to take an hour lunch break OFF DUTY. If during that time, i decide i need to buy a gallon of washer fluid, do i now have to log that? what if i were to buy a tire pressure guage? regardless....even if i walk into the truck stop with the paperwork in my hand, if i'm headed in for my approved off duty lunch break, its line 1. Company cant just change the rules/policy without proper notice whenever they want. I would seriously like to be terminated for logbook violations because i didnt show on line 4 when scanning my paperwork. They'd have a lawsuit on thier hands so fast.....
