Can a company mandate using sleeper status during 10 Hour Break

Company policies vary; my first company was anal about using SB. When at a customer, the QC had to be either On Duty or Sleeper Berth; Off Duty was not allowed during that time. The smaller company I am now with does not even have Sleeper Berth as an option in the QC. Go figure. I do agree that the SB provision in the Regs was/is primarily intended for the team driving situation.

 

I've used e-logs and if i forgot to switch over to line 2 before bed I just went back and edited it the next morning. Not that big of a deal but I think you're over thinking this a tad. just leave line 2 as one continuous block of time from when it starts to when you get up to start your day.

 

Are you a sleeper berth operation? If so, that section you highlighted does not apply.

 

Ok, I really do not know your personal problem doing your log. Hundreds if not thousands of truckers do a log, bet it elog, or paper, and nary a biotch about it. Yet here you seem to be "pissed off" that you have to actually draw a line or two, or three, or hey, maybe ever 4!

Why is it that everyone else "just does it" and everyone checking the log books are happy and content about it, and you seemingly think that you are so special you do not have to as well? here you sit with a mere 2 years experience, and you're "pissed of" at the regulations, your valuable time drawing a line and yada, yada, yada.

For Christ sakes, man up, stop the babbling and log your freaking book.

If your company "mandates that you show sleeper berth time, then ###### do as they say, and end your senseless psycho babble.

 

Interesting academic discussion going on throughout this thread....

Regardless of the letter of the law and so forth, I can see a strong advantage to being able to show a log book with 'sleeper berth' logged on a regular basis in any possible criminal or (more likely) civil actions brought as a result of a collision. This would entirely take the notion of a fatigued driver out of the discussion. Otherwise, as a driver who drives a truck equipped with a sleep berth and has never logged as having used it, you would be having to explain in a convincing manner in front of a judge and jury that you have, indeed, obtained sufficient rest despite never having logged sleeper berth. If you have logged sleeper berth, your logs would eliminate this discussion entirely.

 

If he wishes not to take his time and draw lines because it pisses him off and he does not show sleeper berth time, then he had better show a motel/hotel receipt or if staying at a friends house for his 10, he had better be sure to tell that friend he will be called to testify his were abouts for said hours not shown getting his proper rest. Said friend would be under oath and subject to perjury.

New drivers, 2 years or maybe less, and they got all the knowledge us guys of many more years in thier little pinky.

 

I just use sleeper for everything, except pc and repairs.