Bill of Lading # on Daily Logs

i know for a fact they didnt say it in my training, and i know no ones ever said anything to me about mine with just the trip number. lets hope if they did in fact change it someone will say something.

 

Dirt under your finger nails, A bungie straped to your step to hold the fuel pump in the tank... WHATEVER THEY WANT TO HANG ON YOU!!

 

Just keep giving them a reason,

sooner or later they'll catch it !!

 

When I was driving, I never had a DOT officer tell me the BOL# had to be anywhere on the logs. I would think the trip number is ok since it is how a company tracks shipments' movement. Also, the driver has the BOL in his/her posession, so they can look at that directly if necessary. YMMV of course

 

when i went to driving school at w/s, this was part of the curriculum, and this is why w/s requires its drivers to have the trip number on their logs.

the intent is to give DOT some way of synchronizing a drivers logs with what the driver has been doing. if the log states the driver went from shipper to consignee in 300 miles and the driver picked up in los angeles and delivered in chicago, perhaps the driver's log is not accurate...

and for those of you who are "raising the BS flag": walstib has quoted the relevant portion of 395.8 which is the regulation that requires what must be on the driver's logbook. the full text of 395.8 is here.

as 123456, if you guys would read that little green book, you might know what you are supposed to be doing...

 

Until further notice I will be using the job number on my logs as I have been. Thanks.

 

I have been leaving the spaces blank. I haul my company's own products and have never been questioned about this practice. In light of this thread I started today by writing "various" for BoL numbers and the name of my company as shipper. I'll be sticking to this formula, and thanking the forum for reminding me of what I should have been doing all along.

 

Ka-ching !!!!!

 

Yep, I been using shipper and commodity for years. Never had a problem.

In fact my log book says shipper/commodity right beside that box.

 

Shipper and commodity is great !!!!