log book policy

Depends on the severity - if minor, then a phone call lashing is all that takes.

 

Are you trying to make a policy for your company for log violations?
If so e-mail me

 

The first thing you have to fess up to is what is your company's culture. Do you have a "Log it like you drive it. Drive it legal." company culture, or do you have a "It's hard times, we ain't making any money. Here's an extra log book!" company culture.

I've driven for both kinds of companies. The safety director at the second company asked me one time what he could do to get his drivers to stop rolling out of the yard with logbooks not updated and getting busted at the scales 50 miles down the road. I told him to quit asking drivers to drive illegal when it benefitted the company and then drivers would stop driving illegal when it benefitted them. If drivers start logging in when they left the yard, they'd have to rewrite their logs to make it to the monday morning drop on time.

See, if you manage to not get scaled until 500 miles into your day, you can back log to the day before and drive straight through. That gives an extra day with your family. It isn't so hard to understand. This company dragged drivers in to Saturday morning 4 hour long remedial training where they sat around and talked safety and at noon they sent drivers back on the road to drive illegal as much more as they needed.

Safestat score suffered from drivers who were not smart enough to break the law without getting caught and the company feared charges of conspiracy/collusion so they wouldn't teach these drivers how to be smart enough to pass the scale with good logs. This company feared a good look at their actual driving habits so much they refused to allow prepass in trucks.

BRI

BRI

 

I am also in need of some help creating a company policy regarding logs and vehicle inspections. Does anyone have any sample policies they could send me that I can then adapt to my company? Thanks!

Jeremy

 

Okay might sound a lil "preachy" but after reviewing my companys score on the FMCSA website i would say start there,through CSA2010 it breaks it on down by "Severity"

"Log it as You do it/Log It Legal" would be my "mantra" as the FMCSA will be scoring your company and your drivers are part of that score

http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/sms/

 

Lacy, feel free to email me at james AT valleyautomotiveconsulting.com - I won't keep the address up all day - used to live in Central Point... I have some info you might use or need.

 

Don't hold your breath.

That poster has not been on since April 2008.

I deleted your address from the quote.

 

Didn't even look at the date. ok.