Past logs...question.

I've never heard of that. Seems like BS to me, but who knows.

 

Intrastate drivers in CA. may have to retain 30 days. However interstate drivers only have to have the previous 7 days. CA has many differant regulations for Intrastate drivers. Interstate drivers are covered by the FMCSR's though.

 

Everything I find says Ca mirrors Federal except for some movie personnel.

Call CHP as they will have definitive answer 1-800-TELL-CHP

 

I've had to show previous 30 days in California before. So, carry 30 days.

 

Never a need for more than 8 days............if OTR.

Some LEO types will try to pull the wool over your eyes.........

And others, flat don't now the regulations.

That is why You need to know them, and have Your little green book handy !!!

 

got some bad news for you. a state can require more ( read more stringent ) than Federal Regulations they just can not accept less.

But I would ask the to cite the California Code they are using. All the ones I find link them to the Federal Regulations like most states do.

 

Yeah, many state troopers tend to think we all fall under the same category and all follow the same rules. I had to remind a few of them I was a interstate driver and not a intrastate driver.

 

If the drivers I've met at work and online are any example, I think most truck drivers would rather pay a California-size fine than read a regulation for themself.

This isn't meant as a personal insult of the original poster, but a reflection on the near universal avoidance of the black and white words of the rules we are judged by. Instead the culture of trucking is "ask some random stranger and hope he tells you what you want to hear."

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/rules-regulations.htm