logging the legal speed limits

Glad y'all got a chuckle. So true aint it? LOL

 

the gospel truth and I am still chuckling

 

Also know your companies log violation policies. If your truck is governed at 75 but they write you log violations for anything over 65 then sadly you have to account for that.

 

Ok this is for all you TRUCKERS. MINUS those truckers that the company says log 5 miles under (which are telling you to falsify your logs basically).

You should
1) log what you are actually doing!
2) Do NOT go over the posted speed limit for truck drivers
3) Do NOT log paid miles (most companies you will add 10% to the miles they give you and that's what you will actually drive to pre-plan your load


If you log what you are actually doing and keep track of the odometer reading from midnight to midnight and subtract them to get the total miles driven you should not have problem (if you are not speeding)

What you need to understand is if you are in an accident and you do not log what you are actually doing and someone gets hurt or killed that accident can be held against you.

I suggest this:

1) UNDERSTAND: What lines 1,2,3 & 4 means (just ask me, because I bet you don't understand what lines 1 & 2 means and I bet you feel that line 4 should not be logged, well DOT says different and that' what they are looiking for in their :internal audits"

If you are working for daddy Log it as on-duty the whole time

 

Well in theory you could end up in prison over falsifying your logs

 

EXACTLY! So keep your log book current and fill in all the blanks and you shouldn't have a problem. However what ALL DRIVERS need to UNDERSTAND is just because you get over them on the road doesn't mean when they audit the company they won't find them violations because they WILL! They have plenty of time to audit your logs and they have all the documentation and they have ALL the TOOLS to do so!

Its you drivers on the road that help keep the DOT audits down! If you get a DOT Out of service this helps attract DOT to us and red flags the company so means more audits on the road and the closer they look at that log book you have! SO DO the COMPANY & U a favor and keep them logs current, legal and don't run over your hours (if you do log it as you did it and write down why u did it, don't make this a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly habbit though.
Once a month might be logical to run over for some un forseen reason or issue, but may not be acceptable.

Again a tip for you all driving out there

 

Yeah, PRISON.

 

I am so sorry about the daddy thing I am not even sure why I said that, just being silly again I guess. I appoligize I sure didn't mean it in a bad way "really".
Yeah if he is in the 70mp zone then he can log "no more" than 70 mph and to argue that you did less would be debatable and tough. However do it the way I told you and you should not have a problem

Have a great day/night