Oh what fun! Elogs

Yeah sounds bogus to me too. A swift truck running 100 mph... that wouldn't draw any attention at all!

 

If that happened at all it's much more likely he was a decoy. There was never anything on the trailer.

 

Driving of commercial motor vehicles
§ 392.5 Alcohol prohibition.
- Interpretation

(a) No driver shall'

(1) Use alcohol, as defined in §382.107 of this subchapter, or be under the influence of alcohol, within 4 hours before going on duty or operating, or having physical control of, a commercial motor vehicle; or
(2) Use alcohol, be under the influence of alcohol, or have any measured alcohol concentration or detected presence of alcohol, while on duty, or operating, or in physical control of a commercial motor vehicle; or
(3) Be on duty or operate a commercial motor vehicle while the driver possesses wine of not less than one-half of one per centum of alcohol by volume, beer as defined in 26 U.S.C. 5052(a), of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and distilled spirits as defined in section 5002(a)(8), of such Code. However, this does not apply to possession of wine, beer, or distilled spirits which are:
(i) Manifested and transported as part of a shipment; or
(ii) Possessed or used by bus passengers.
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(b) No motor carrier shall require or permit a driver to'

(1) Violate any provision of paragraph (a) of this section; or
(2) Be on duty or operate a commercial motor vehicle if, by the driver's general appearance or conduct or by other substantiating evidence, the driver appears to have used alcohol within the preceding four hours.
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Controlled substances and alcohol use and testing
§ 382.201 Alcohol concentration.

No driver shall report for duty or remain on duty requiring the performance of safety-sensitive functions while having an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or greater. No employer having actual knowledge that a driver has an alcohol concentration of 0.04 or greater shall permit the driver to perform or continue to perform safety-sensitive functions.

§ 382.205 On-duty use.

No driver shall use alcohol while performing safety-sensitive functions. No employer having actual knowledge that a driver is using alcohol while performing safety-sensitive functions shall permit the driver to perform or continue to perform safety-sensitive functions.

§ 382.207 Pre-duty use.

No driver shall perform safety-sensitive functions within four hours after using alcohol. No employer having actual knowledge that a driver has used alcohol within four hours shall permit a driver to perform or continue to perform safety-sensitive functions.

 

I was gonna say step away from the .............

You beat me to it

 

Scottie...come on man no way you believe that

 

Can't drive for Swift until you're 23.


Was this guy's name Shane by any chance? Does he own 33 other trucks, a luxury condo in San Diego and have a pregnant girlfriend in New York?

Or Kyle? No. Too young to be Kyle and Swift wouldn't hire him anyway.

 

So its my first day with these elogs. Let me say I'm not liking it. I don't understand how is it you can be at a shipper off duty/SB and still kill your 14 hours when I haven't moved. Can someone explain this to me?

 

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Same way it did on a paper log. The 14 hour clock starts ticking as soon as you change your duty status to ON DUTY and begin your pre trip. OFF DUTY or SLEEPER does not extend your 14 hour day, unless you company allows a split sleeper then a period of 8 hours but less than 10 hours consecutively in the sleeper berth period will extend your 14 hour clock. I could go on but I don't care that much.

Think of it this way, it's like you're cooking a turkey for 14 hours, it doesn't stop cooking for 4 hours because you fell asleep. Once you start that oven it keeps cooking.

 

If you read my other posts and run completely legal and when you have hours available it is not safe. Is it safer to go an hour or two over your hours or, park for the night and wake in the morning to an ice or snow storm you could have beat if you had just driven a little longer? Is it safe to shut down at 4:00 in the afternoon because you are out of time for the day and it is far to early to go to bed. so you roll around in the bunk for 5 hours and finally fall asleep, then wake up at 2;00 am and drive because you are legal and have hours available? NO it would have been safer to drive a few more hours, go to bed at a descent time, actully be able to go to sleep get well rested and then drive. I have been woken up a few times as a company driver with a qualcomm, because our night dispacher seen that i had been parked for 10 hours and now had hours available. he had no clue how much sleep or rest i had gotten, he just knew my time was up and told me to start driving. EOBRS will be the same way. Hey i have hours available my EOBR says I can drive now. but its 2;00 am and im tired. id better go though because i dont want the boss mad.....