Pre trip frequency for a team

Most companies will require each team driver to perform and log on line 4 a pretrip of the vehicle before their respective time behind the wheel. Nothing like your moron teammate running up to 10:59 on his 11, pulls over on the side of the interstate and you have to sit there an addtional 15 minutes after coming out of the sleeper with live traffic whizzing by before you can leave.

 

Ah, so true and thanks for the affirmation.

 

Just pretrip the passenger side of the truck... LOL

One can pretrip while the other does Posttrip... how do you log that??? LOL

 

My teammate would log 15 minutes OnDuty/CityState/Posttrip and I would log 15 minutes OnDuty/CityState/Pretrip. Both his paper log and my paper log matched time and location.

 

Oops... I was thinking eLogs... LOL
we can only have one driver logged in at a time.

But once again, you showed me options that I wasn't aware of... LOL

 

Which Elog are you using?

 

We use elog.
We are both logged on.
One on duty one in sleeper or off respectively.

One 12 hour period looks like this if I am just driving.

330am. Wake up. Prepare for day. 350am. Briefing time. Where are we. How heavy. Hazmat yes or no. Where are we going. How far away are we. What's the fuel plan. Etc. Then team driver completes Post trip.
4am. I log on duty perform a pre trip. Double check that the pins are locked.
415am. We roll.
6am or sooner as required. Inter trip performed.
Anytime I stop. An inter trip is performed. I check the fifth wheel every time and all connections.
345pm. I post trip. Briefing time.

Short answer. I pre trip, inter trip, and post trip every day. Sometimes, a couple times a day.

If I have to go the last 180 miles of a trip. I will pre/inter and post trip that load. Then I will pick up a new load and pre/inter/post trip that load before my team partner takes over the load.

It's what we do. We couldn't get a definitive answer regarding the inspection portion of our log so we just do this. Our elogs have never been rejected.

When we were training we line hauled. When we did this, we pre trip the first load. Inter trip at the relay yard. Then post trip at the terminal.

I hope this helps.

 

I was asking Mac Daddy. I've not heard of an Elog that can only have one driver.

If you're using QHOS then showing 5 minutes will prevent the computer from tagging a "violation". A manual review will catch a whole lot more but most safety guys I know just run the report and look closely at the "errors" listed.