Can DOT officers bother you at a truck stop?

Better get a sworn affidavit every time you stay anywhere else besides home, motel or sleeper.

 

Just leave enough DNA so DOT CSI can sort it out PDQ.

 

Do I get to call the US Marshals at some point?

 

Not necessarily wrong, I live in Oregon, so if I am in lets say in Kentucky, wouldn't be hard for an officer to look at my license and see I don't live there so if I tell him I stayed with friends, he could take it at my word. But if Leo doesn't want to take it at my word and wanted me to prove it I wouldn't have no way to prove it because I don't know or have friends in Kentucky.

all I am saying if one wants to log off duty all the time so be it but the biggest surprise I see here is no one is willing to make sure they cover their own butts. And why we would think that Leo would ever nit pick at things really? Leo never nit pics at things do they?

 

LEO can ask all they want, drivers are not required to provide proof (except as already noted above). Period.

I am from Alberta, I log off-duty (when I am off-duty) in various U.S. cities. It is no one's business where, or with whom.

Drivers need to learn what the rules are and when and how to refuse "offside" questions.

 

Absolutely!




That's who collects the DNA.

 

Y'all realize your arguing a moot point? The new rules adopted last July state that anytime spend resting in a parked CMV may be logged as off duty wether you are reading in the drivers seat of snoozing in the bunk it's all off duty and can no longer be claimed as falsification. With that said I log all my breaks as off duty and there isn't a #### thing they can do about it no proof required of where I spent my time.

 

Actually, that law was from February 28, 2012 about resting in a parked commercial vehicle.

There are supporting documentation rules from 2005 that they try to get the driver on. But, off duty is not really their business.

I had a scale in Montana that I had to actually show motel receipts to prove I was not working due to snow storms and shut down. She was going to write a false log ticket and I would have to prove otherwise.

I told the officer that what I do on my time off is none of their business. She said otherwise.

 

Your right it was February. I'd have told her to write the ticket and took it to court as she was flat wrong. It's amazing that they expect us to know the rules forwards and backwards but they don't have to kno #### about the regs they enforce.

 

If she had been evil and put me out of service as well, I would have missed the delivery window and been stuck in Canada for 3 days. The unit had to be delivered that day for a show that weekend.