Log question

If you are 26,000 lbs or under you can travel in a 150 air mile radius of your terminal with out keeping a log book.
You must keep a record of duty status which can consist of a time card or time sheet.
If you you are over 26,000 it's the same but you are only allowed 100 air miles with out keeping a log.

 

You need to fill out a daily log, enter all hours that you are working for pay as on duty. You can work as many hours on duty as you want, but you cannot drive a commercial vehicle once you have worked 70 hours in a 8 day week or after 14 hours on duty without a 10 hour break. If you are intrastate only and only travel within 150 air mile radius you don't need logs

 

Any chance you have a link to this? I've never heard of a distance difference allowed depending on one's GVWR for local drivers.
Thanks.

 

I only drive about once or twice a month anymore, usually just when we are short of drivers.

What I do is fill out a log when I drive. Between each trip I'll just fill out a page that says "off duty" between each trip. I've been checked and questioned about this several times and after explaining the situation, the officers all said this was ok. I'm not saying this is 100% right but it's always worked for me.

 

Here you go. https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/Drivers Guide to HOS 2015_508.pdf

This document would also be a very good read for the OP.

 

You need to have a log filled out for each day that you work for the company, regardless of if you drive that day or not. Any work for which you are compensated must be logged as On-Duty time. If you have a job at, say, Walmart where you work 9-5 and take an hour lunch break from 12-1 you would need to log 9-12 as On-Duty Not Driving, 12-1 as off duty, and 1-5 as On-Duty Not Driving.

 

What @Hulld said.

What are you hauling? Livestock? Some places like Florida requires you to stop and show your paper work, they might even ask for your logbook or time card.

The small weigh station in 287 NJ, and i95 north bound weigh station by Miami, FL are notorious for pulling over straight trucks or pickups with goose necks. Ive seen the drivers get handcuffed from time to time.

If its a commercial vehicle, your subject to the same rules and regulations we deal with every day. Even if you take the back roads, dont get comfortable. There is this thing called "mobile inspection unit", they got portable scales and everything you cab think of. New york and Pennsylvania started that ####, now every state is following behind their foot steps.