no log book?...is this possible?....

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  1. Sep 8, 2012 #31
    snowwy

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    what does your confusing sttatement have to do with logs on a day job?
     
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  3. Sep 8, 2012 #32
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    there is no law as to how many miles you can drive during the day. you just can't go out of the 100 mile radious WITHOUT A LOG.

    back when i did it though. the radius was 150 miles according to the scale house. and you had to spend the night. but i was home every night.

    arrived at yard at 5 a.m. pre and fuel. arrived at job sight by 7 a.m. loaded contaminated soil. dumpsite was a county landfill out in the sticks. back to jobsite for second load around one. dump at county landfill. arrived at yard and leaving by 6 p.m. total miles was 650. total day was 13 hours.

    that job rocked becuase it was overtime pay during the winter when construction work is SLOW.
     
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    I wonder what the limit is. Or if there is one for miles?

    Sent from my Nexus 7
     
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    somebody was saying
    and my response here was that maybe some CMV stop thinks I should have logs or maybe later I need to know how they are done and get used to it, sorry I crowded you but hard to get it all in as the keyboard is slow.....I was thinking of the fact that I have never been in a CMV inspection and have no idea, but for sure the way I phrased it is what I actually saw so my expectation is rules or not I will be inspected soon in this area so knowing what exactly the regs are is critical ...... thus I so said and sort of expected to be crowded back but need to "think ahead" as whether needed is exactly what the thread is about

    will decipher or peel apart nuances further if needed ~ as you know if they dont have a rule for something the stop is in the judgement of the inspecting officer so - uh, I didn't really know so prob a bust on my part .....
     
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    How do you explain BFI's hiring thousands of drivers a year but paying substandard wages ?
     
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    In Texas Intrastate, it is 150 miles with 12hrs of drive time with no more than 15hrs on duty, following with 8hrs off duty.

    Here is a .pdf link that you should review >> http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/internetforms/Forms/MCS-9.pdf
     
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    snowwy

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    having not read the link.

    why would texas have a different rule then the other 49 states? who use the same rule that the govt issued.

    if your a day driver. and you get inspected. the cops will never ask you for your logs becuase they know you go home every night. therefore you don't have a log book. so why waste your time keeping a log book. if your company does an audit. they most certainly won't bee looking for logs. unless they see a time card with over 12 hours. then they'll ask for a log graph for that day.

    the limit would be whateve the speed limit is. but realisticly. your not gonna hit that limit. unless your speeding.

    you can't do 750 miles in a 10 hour shift if the speed limit is 650 miles. and your spend 2 hours of your shift getting loaded and dumping and reloading and dumping then going home.

    there is no law to how many miles you can drive. but you can't be unrealistic either.
     
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  11. Sep 9, 2012 #39
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    that is the information I was looking for at the original post - ty & gonna be really busy starting monday and have a full day today loading up - I think I will buy a logbook somewhere so as to practice ~ usually on a new contract office may not keep all that so I will do so for some for the expectation that they will be running me over 12 hours as this is really ramping ^
     
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  12. Sep 9, 2012 #40
    snowwy

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    take your laptop if you have one. and download trucklogger. it's a free 60 day evaluation. and you'll learn better then running a book.

    make a mistake on the book and you get a unplanned nap time and a citation.

    everybody has a different idea on how logs worki. it's very easy to think wrong and get a citation.
    a computer and software will keep you out of trouble.
     
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