Flagging

Not sure understand what you are asking, but I will interpret. Flagging means to only show a change on a duty status with no time or less than 15 min. You do have to show a change in duty status when going on break (line1) or any other change during your 14 hours. The only thing I flag daily is a post trip at end of day...Gunney

 

No this is not accurate. you need to flag if you have changed your location and then have a duty change.. So if I was on line 3 and went to line 1 I would need to flag that and note my location..

 

Example:
If I was on line 3 and went to line 1 I would flag and note my location (under the flag I would write down what I was doing such as break ext..) Then lets say from that point I changes back and forth from line 1 and 2.. I would not flag but simply make a line from the last change on 1 or 2 connecting back to the flag.. Then when ever I changed from line 1 or 2 back down 3 I would just connect to the bracket back to the original flag (no need to make another flag).. Now if you went down to line 4 you would need to flag again because you are no working, you would need to flag note your location (even if it is the same as the last flag) then under the flag you would need to explain what you are doing now.. example: pre trip, unload ext..


I hope that makes sense..

 

Click on the link below Or copy and paste it whichever works. I hope it works right

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regu...p?rule_toc=764&section=395.8&section_toc=1942

Go down until you see in blue wording with a link that says "figure 3"

That's how you should log it! DOT does not require you to write fuel, loading, pre-trip etc, however many companies require it and it does look better in my opinion . That ? is asked directly in the regulation book. I pasted it below. What you can do is whats called bracketing the same locations. The driver writes the city & state one time and writes break, fuel etc then brings the line over to the next duty status change to show same city & state.

Question 23: When the driver's duty status changes, do §395.8(c) or 395.8(h)(5) require a description of on-duty not driving activities ("fueling," "pre-trip," "loading," "unloading,", etc.) in the remarks section in addition to the name of the nearest city, town or village followed by the State abbreviation?

Guidance: No. Many motor carriers require drivers to identify work performed during a change of duty status. Part 395 neither requires nor prohibits this practice.


Flagging means if you come out of the sleeper and you did a pre-trip in less than 15 minutes you can flag it "just using this as an example, check with your company on how to log pre-trips" so you draw your line down to the drive line and make your duty status change in the remark section with the city & state and stating how long it took you to do whatever. loading, fuel etc.

That question is also asked see below. Again make sure you check with your company and then always use common sense about logging line 4. Almost everything you do that involves work "not driving" will take a minimum of 15 minutes.

Question 1: How should a change of duty status for a short period of time be shown on the driver's record of duty status?

Guidance: Short periods of time (less than 15 minutes) may be identified by drawing a line from the appropriate on-duty (not driving) or driving line to the remarks section and entering the amount of time, such as "6 minutes," and the geographic location of the duty status change