Trip Reports in reail time?

Some companies want state line odometer readings some don't, just a beginning and end of trip. The one's that don't, have your routing and from there they can determine distances with their software.

You'll never be asked on the road for it only in the office has to maintain records. I always kept a little black composition book and transferred the data to the trip report. But I kept track of every stop with the odometer in case I had to do magic things.

 

I only did that for my first company 16 years ago and I think they only made us do it for 2 months and we didn't have to do it no more. I normally used the Atlas because we ran team and sometimes my codriver would forget.

 

Just remember, if you are an idependent, not working with a fleet, these are tax records and you need to be able to produce these records for the past 7 years. This includes the routing information. If you think a DOT audit is bad, try an IFTA audit. The fines are roughly 4 to 5 times as large per fleet than a DOT fine.

 

Do you really need the actual odometer readings at each state line? Isn't just writing down how many miles you do in each state enough?

 

You will need actual odometers. They will want to know how you figured your miles.

Remember milages within any state will need to be to the mile if you are using a paper system.

 

Do the mega carriers also have drivers do these trip reports?

 

Most Mega's have Qualcomm for mileage tracking or some other program. They have trip packs, but they have nothing to do with mileage, from my experience anyway