Max time you spend in sleeper birth?

Two choices, hold it in or falsify the logbook.

 

At least he didn't amplify stupid like this bozo did...

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr.../might-as-well-screw-up-at-the-scales.324516/

 

Everyone knows if you are driving through midnight, don't stop tobring logs up to date, keep driving because the duty status has not changed. Then when you stop, at that point, is a status change.


Think about this one though. Hit the rest area at 2300 PM and go to Sleeper. Logs still show yesterday which is fine as long as you stay in the Sleeper. But driver gets up to go pee at 0600AM and a trooper is right there says let me see your logs. Since the driver changed duty status by getting out of the truck and logs are still from yesterday, that is a ticket my friend.

I'm seeing more and more troopers at rest areas early in the mornings banging on truck doors checking logs. It is low hanging fruit for them especially the illegally parked truckers. Then themy make them move into the legal parking spots within the rest area and pop them again for moving the truck past their legal hours in addition to false logs.

My point is this, if you learn a new language, they don't teach you the cuss words first so please don't come into the Questions From New Drivers Forum and spread around dangerous info, stick to the book for the rooks, they will get their fill of 'trucker /lawyer' stories at the lunch counter.

 

No it isn't. Note the highlighted words from 396.9(a) below; if the driver is off-duty, the vehicle is not in operation, therefore an inspection is not authorized.

Also, in the absence of exigent circumstances; i.e., illegally parked, a driver cannot be forced to go on-duty to satisfy an inspection request.

Ya know, for an "expert", you sure get a lot wrong.

§ 396.9: Inspection of motor vehicles and intermodal equipment in operation.

(a) Personnel authorized to perform inspections. Every special agent of the FMCSA (as defined in appendix B to this subchapter) is authorized to enter upon and perform inspections of a motor carrier's vehicles in operation and intermodal equipment in operation.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/396.9
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This is the main point. You have no point. Only some crazy things where you have tried pounding square pegs into round holes and all over the place in every other way. There are years of experience posting in this one thread and mostly laughing and making fun of you.

 

Cops have been waking truckers up for years now. However I have never seen a cop wake a trucker parked legally awoke just so they can look at logs. Oh that bit about truckers being woke up then ticketed for log book violations is another myth. Now there are places that have time limits. I have seen drivers parked in these limited parking areas woke up, but honestly I have never seen them get log book tickets. Off duty truckers just don't get log book tickets, it just don't happen the way you describe. Please stop smoking whatever it is your smoking because you are making a fool of yourself.

 

Ok let's ask a true professional a DOT officer @Observer1

 

Yes but he qualified that in order to not update your logs off duty or sleeper one would have tobe on private property. Rest areas are public property.

FTR I do like how Canada does it though. They trust a professional driver to get the proper rest without all the rules and regs to show sleeper time and properly logging in/out of sleeper to go pee like we do. The Ministry of Trucking got it right.

 

Be patient I paged a professional a DOT officer