Log Book Needed?

Wrong. If you're typically exempt from the RODS requirement, you do NOT have to draw up the previous 7 days if you happen to venture beyond the 100th air mile.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/part/395?guidance

 

if your are a local driver and on a day you travel farther than 100 air miles the driver must have a log booked filled out for that day and a record of the previous 7 days too.

 

No, they don't. It is written pretty clearly in the guidance, right there on the FMCSA's site. They only need the current day when they do not meet the requirements, NOT the previous 7 when they were operating under the exemption. I posted the guidance, as well as the link. You are wrong. Don't believe me, though, follow the link and read it for yourself...and then stop spreading false information.

 

If you don't have the FMCSA bookmarked on your laptop or smartphone you are eventually going to be arguing to some authority "but some guy on the internet or at the truck stop said this was OK."

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/b/5/3

 

So true, but it's unfortunate how much gray area the wording used by FMCSA creates for some of us non-lawyer types... plain english would be nice.