Off Duty Driving

Must be a different type of setup for some companies. When I had a Qualcomm you couldn't select driving. The only way for you to log line 3 was if the vehicle was in motion otherwise it automatically switched to on duty

 

Yea, ours (Peoplenet) we can manually switch to driving and it will also auto switch after x-miles of movement. It also switched back to on-duty after x-minutes of being stopped.

-Steven

 

I guess he hasn't read interp question 25 in 395.2

Question 25: When a driver experiences a delay on an impassable highway, should the time he/she is delayed be entered on the record of duty status as driving time or on-duty (not driving)?

Guidance: Delays on impassable highways must be recorded as driving time because §395.2 defines “driving time” as all time spent at the driving controls of a Commercial Motor Vehicle CMV in operation

 

I hope it took you a really long time to look that up and waste your time on a joke lol

 

It did not, Sorry to disappoint you. It was posted for the guy that read it and didn't think it was a joke, to keep them out of trouble down the road.

 

Doesn't really matter. If I am stopped on a roadway for a jam or something, I go to off duty on the e-log. I let it switch to driving on its own once I get moving. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is not legit. But a far cry from some of the goofy stuff some folks do with paper.

 

You sound like my kids - "Yeah, I know I am doing wrong, but that kid is worse. So, I am OK, right?"

 

You bet.

 

Not without violating/falsifying your logs.

 

About 11 years ago when I Drove for Werner I drove 180 miles off duty driving to grab something from the house and it was perfectly legal at the time and all I had to do was take 5 hours in the sleeper to reset my clock but that was before they screwed up the sleeper berth thing and we could split our breaks into 5 hour segments