Co-driver drives on my log

If you knowingly let someone else drive on the logs logged in as you, you are an idiot. At the point you realized your co-driver was doing this you should have immediately notified safety. To continue to let this happen is ridiculous. Anything that happens while your co-driver is driving will be on you. You will never convince the DOT or a jury that this was not done with your consent. If you're a scared rookie that thinks you have no alternative,, you absolutely do. Consider this one of your first tests in becoming a professional driver.

 

These are all better answers than mine; punch him in the face.

 

Twice

 

A little crank will keep him wanting to drive ALL NIGHT LONG !!!

 

Dude that's illegal as ####

 

On a side note. That's less driving you have to do but you still get paid I would let that crackhead lol.. and if dot searches log I'd play it off saying oh darn we forgot to switch drivers again sorry officer we will get it fixed asap

 

Report it as soon as possible, although before you do make sure you've informed him verbally, and if you want to get really specific in writing as well if you know his cell send him a text message that will be written proof of your notice for him to comply also text the company about this issue this will also serve as proof you've taken action to notify them, remember "its not what you know but what you can prove." As far as others talking about if an incident occurs while he is driving if he is an authorized company driver and in his "legal hours" can't see why if he was driving and "an incident" occurred why you'd be the one fronting up in court? That'd be like giving someone ( who is licenced) permission to drive your car and they caused an traffic accident is the owner legally liable, would a hire company be liable if they hired a car to someone that caused an accident of course not, sounds ridiculous. the only time that would be the case is if you permitted someone to drive that did not legally hold a valid drivers licence.

 

Find a new co-driver...period.

 

I did it with a trainer once.

Allow me to explain. I took a hiatus from trucking, and upon my return had to go out with a trainer. I decided (because I'm stupid) to stage my return to trucking with a further return to Werner Enterprises. So I had to go out with a Werner trainer. Could not for the life of me get along with the first victim....errr...trainer, despite his being a nice guy and a good trainer (yes, they did exist in the way back times). So I got reassigned to a new trainer.

And when I say new, I mean this cat just got recanted out of the plastic! Florida native, six months driving OTR under his belt, and I was his third "student".

Well, everybody knows how Werner works. Trainer trucks are just cheap teams for them. And my trainer's last student could provide a whole new definition for the term incompetence. Dude was flat out exhausted when I got on the truck! And we, of course, had a team load. Long jump, and barely enough time,to pull it off without a service failure.

So I'm rolling along, knocking down both miles and my hours. My shift is about to end, and I whack the curtain to wake my trainer. Nothing. I pull over and call him. Nothing. I open the curtain and check. He ain't dead, but he might as well be. Completely gone, almost comatose.

So I double check to make sure he's still breathing, grab his log in and password out of his book, swap drivers in the computer, and keep right on trucking. Full twenty hours of roll time in total, but that load got delivered on time, my trainer missed out on a service failure, and we went on to have a neck of a good time for the rest of my training period.

Darned near teamed with that Florida Gator Boy bigger. Would've, if he didn't live in that glorified swamp. We got along great right from the outset and complemented each other as drivers. I could do the "keep the left door closed and haul ###" thing, he could back that darned truck into a matchbox, blindfolded!

Throughout the rest of my time on his truck, we swapped back and forth on the old comic book (despite it being electronic). One would drive til he got tired, then the other would hop into the saddle. Swap drivers on the computer whenever a clock would expire.

Probably the only team style operation in Werner's history that ran outta hours almost every week! But gol darn did that truck crank some serious miles!