recap on logs...

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  1. tow614

    tow614 Road Train Member

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    There are no phone apps approved for elog use.
     
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  3. realsupatrucka

    realsupatrucka Road Train Member

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    Its not a app...its a actual elog
     
  4. tow614

    tow614 Road Train Member

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    If it is on your phone it is not approved. Must be tied in with truck ecm .
     
  5. realsupatrucka

    realsupatrucka Road Train Member

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    Yes it document miles and all the
     
  6. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    The apps on the phones aren't elogs, but as long as you can print your log every day they are equivalent to using DDL or Eclipse, basically a computer generated paper log.

    As to the recap, not sure which app you're using, but I'd tried one a while back and I seem to remember having to go to the mode where you set up the phone to hand to the cop, so he could see your current status, and the recap was visible there. But I don't even remember which app it was...
     
  7. realsupatrucka

    realsupatrucka Road Train Member

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    I'm not using ey app there a tie it in with Sprintthe truck has a black box that tells the blackberry everything
     
  8. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    Ah! Then it may well be an elog, and the BB is just the display used by the unit. And hopefully someone who's used one can help you. Another thought... can you go back and look at past days? Be easy enough to go look at the 8th day and see how many hours you worked.
     
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  9. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    phone apps are approved by dot. just have to print them out. just like a computer.

    the only thing they look at. is the screen for todays log. they look at your paper for the other 7 days,.
     
  10. Chewey

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    Remember you can recap using the old system to just find your 70 hr mark.
     
  11. Hammer166

    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    They are approved as a logbook, but not as an elog, or to use the new terminology, an ELD.
     
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