Define "Home terminal"

mn driver, i would think in your case it could be at your home , since you basically operate out of that as a terminal.

bbb could allow you do that, its really his call.

but logging it from your home, with the way you guys operate would cause no regulatory problems.

 

Thats sort of how I do it. Dash and GPS clock is my logging time and my cell is local time decided by the network.

 

Is there a strict definition for home terminal? Our trucks run inside a 150 mile radius, so if we had a home terminal in the middle they would be exempt from elds. Anyone know what the the exact definition is?

 

If you are looking at the local logging exemption, there are three criteria to meet.
1. No more than 12 hours on duty/driving.
2. 100 air mile radius (150 for cmv that does not require a cdl. Also 150 in some states as an ag exemption)
3. Must start and end the day in the same location.

Where you stop/start is your home terminal, even if it's the field out back of your house.

 

No confusing.

Where your company HQ with records IS the time you keep. Local time taint matter unless you are perhaps in the NE waiting on a call from a west coast that aint even woke up yet....

One time same time all the time in that log book of your'un.... whereever that company name and location is in it, is what the time zone you keep in it. Whatever the world is doing with it's time UK 7 hours ahead, Israel 9 and Russia almost 12... whatever is on your wrist is the time you keep. Hell, Korea is tomorrow. We just aint got there yet as this world turns.

 

GMT from Little Rock to that blessed Brass Strip embedded in UK Greenwich Square is +7 hours. (I've stood on the #### thing... lord only knows why we travel that far to do that...)

Some of us don't count that high.

If the United States want perfect time Keeping, point at the US Navy Observatory in DC where there is a master Atomic Clock, it's only off a fraction of a second about 30,000 years.... or so...

 

Time base to be used. You must use the time zone in effect at your home terminal. Even if you cross other time zones, record time as it is at your terminal. The 24-hour period starting time on your log grid must be the same for your whole terminal.