How to log

IRS accepts other things to prove where you were at that the DOT and others don't consider.

 

Yeah but the point is if they don't have their logs (one book per month) they probably are not keeping anything else either. At least they have their daily recordes.

Help me reinforce keeping their log sheets

 

Your post-trip is something you should take seriously or if you are getting ready to drive you should be taking that seriously. One of the two PLEASE

Lets say there is a kid laying under your tires , you don't do a pre-trip because well you know from driving it that everything is ok. Well that kid gets rolled over by your tires. How would you feel?

Everyone you should be doing a very very very good post-trip inspection and your pre-trip you should be walking around to make sure nothing is wrong/gone wrong or nothing is going on under that trailer/truck.
Think about it, I wouldn't say it if some of these stories wasn't true. Guess who suffers, THE DRIVER

So do as I say please for your benefiet (sp?)

 

Get that book written yet, Logs? Come on now, I'm a new driver and I don't want to get my ### burned this early in my career because my company didn't tell something about the logs that I needed to know.

oh, and I assume you'll be writing in plain english, not legalese?

 

I still stress pretrip more. Imho, it's positively more important than the post trip.

 

Yea Logs we really need that book as far as I'm concerned your the only authority out here. I'd be willing to send you a couple of bucks to get ya motavated?
DONATE TO THE "WRITE THE BOOK" LogsRus FUND AND GET THE REAL SCOOP ON HOW TO FILL OUT YOUR LOGS ?
or
maybe we could get you on XM and kick the bozo off ......... lmao

 

Now.. *that* is a fine idea. Of course, she'd have to deal with differences in company policy on how certain things are logged (not that either is wrong, but it's just done differently at one carrier )

Logs, if you go XM, I promise, not only will I buy your book, I'll buy an XM radio!

I will say this- for all that the Post Trip is mandated by the DOT book, the school I'm attending barely mentions it. The PRE-trip, which is not mandated, gets a lot of attention (and is required to get a CDL - why does this not make any sense?)

As a student, I have to pre-trip before I do anything with a truck, of course. Even if it's just spending 4 hours on the pad trying to parallel park. What I do, also, though, is when I leave the truck, I give it a once-over. Nothing in depth .. lights, tires, trailer still attached...quick look for external broken stuff that I didn't see break during the day.

Interestingly, twice in two days, I've seen evidence of .. um... short-stepped pre-trips. Both the same night, in fact. During my night drive, we passed a trailer on the side of the highway.. then a few hundred feet farther along, we passed that trailer's tandems. OOOOPS

On the way home after my drive, I got behind a tanker - with no lights abaft the tractor. The tractor had tail lights, etc - but the trailer was completely dark. No turn signals, nada. Even a cursory pre-trip should have caught that one! (I tried to catch him to let him know - but got stop lighted and he got away. No cell phone, so I couldn't call PD, either. )

For all that the post trip is mandated, I agree that the pre trip is the more essential