Daylight savings time

You make your log out like daylight savings time doesn't exist. The time change, for logging purposes, occurs while you're on your 10 hour break. In the spring it will appear like you only take a 9 hour break, in the fall it will appear like you take an 11 hour break. In reality, both will still be 10 hour breaks.

 

I'm sorry, I said that backwards..... in the spring it will look like 11 hours, fall will look like 9.

 

No, if you physically drove 3, you log 3. The time change you will show during your break

 

If you drove for 3 hours starting at midnight, then take a 10 hour break, you would log you drove from midnight to 0300, then were on break from 0300 until 1400.

 

Logging Daylight Savings Time: Watching your math
Make sure your drivers, dispatchers, and log auditing personnel know how to handle the loss of an hour

Posted March 2, 2015

Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday March 8. This annual event often generates common questions on how to handle Daylight Savings Time on the driver's record of duty status (log). The following "best practices" for the time change can help keep you compliant.

Daily log

There are no official regulations or interpretations addressing documenting Daylight Savings Time on the driver's record of duty status; it's somewhat open to interpretation.

When you "lose" an hour in the spring, your log for that day should show 23 hours of activity. Leave a blank column on the grid for the hour from 2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m. (i.e., skip over that hour). The driver should also write something in the Remarks area like "DST" or "daylight savings."

If you are taking a required off-duty break at the time, make sure it's long enough without counting the lost hour.

Handling the 34-hour restart

The fact that the clock jumps ahead has no effect on the 11-hour driving limit, the 14-hour window (which is based on consecutive time), or the 10-hour off-duty requirement (also based on consecutive time).

Similarly, for a restart, the driver will still need to be off for 34 consecutive hours, but the clock will say it was 35. For example, if the driver is off from 7 p.m. on the 7th until 5 a.m. on the 9th, that will be 34 hours on the clock but only 33 actual hours due to the time change. Therefore, the driver will need to start the break by 6 p.m. or stay off duty until 6 a.m. to satisfy the rule. In either case, the break must be 34 actual hours long even if the clock jumps ahead.

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DST is another one of these pesky myths that drivers tell and keep telling. I always logged as per above. I have always taught and will still teach NEVER NEVER ALLOW yourself to be put in the position where you are depending on a cops good graces. There are a lot of cops out there that hate truckers.

Edited to add I always used paper logs. I do not know how the new e-logs handle DST so always go by your companies rules on this.

 

When I got up to roll yesterday, the log showed the current daylight savings time and the fact that my 10 hour break was complete. Didn't notice if it did anything else, I was asleep, lol

 

I drove through DST in the fall once, the period from 0100-0200 repeated and was darker than the rest of the blue drive lines.

As far as spring, never did it on elogs. Have seen truckers over the years just pull over for that hour and continue on. I would think at the stroke of 0200 it becomes 0300 at that moment and technically would be OK to leave that hour completely blank on the paper log although you never know what kind of cop you're going to come up against.