I feel like giving up on drivers :(

I was reading the news letter this month and it said there have been a lot of drivers loging over 100mph on there logs..... all I could think was WHY????

 

Usually it's an error they've made in calulating their driving time, or they've "shaved" too much time off line 3 during their 11 hours. I got tagged for that during training (was TOO honest) and got a few majors for speeding (over 60 mph in a company truck). Once I got that figured out and exactly what the log department was looking for, haven't had a single major since.

 

I see alot of it happening two ways.
1. old school drivers not wanting to get with the new ways
2. the DM's and sometime Planners pushing a driver to do the wrong thing, and quietly threatning them with thier miles and job.

the only way i see this changing and the industry getting honest is when logs and saftey both are in the same room with the planners and DM's and actually monitoring the boards and phone conversations and not allowing themselves to get all chummy with them, actually being there to protect the driver and the company.

 

Oh I am careful. Technically, my truck is governed at 67 mph. However, I can only log 65 mph per company rules. Hence, a bit o' shaving here and there.

 

I'd be willing to bet-it hasn't changed abit, has it ??

 

I feel your pain.

 

Dieselbear, I've been in the scales when the logbooks get opened and love some of the things a driver can come up with! I especially love the "you're supposed to give me 15 minutes to get my log book caught up" but that's not the way it reads in the "little book"!

A driver failing only to have possession of a record of duty status current on the day of examination and the prior day, but has completed records of duty status up to that time (previous 6 days), will be given the opportunity to make the duty status record current.

I always hope they have the last 6 days done but usually they are several days behind! Man I look back at being that dumb and realize I spent more time trying to remember and figure stuff out that if I log it as I did it!

 

Question:
In keeping logs current, when you are directed up into the scale house, and maybe round back do you show that b4 going into the house or what?
I know we have to keep logs current (within 2 hrs of current time)

 

Actually I believe that it is the last change of duty as far as legal, company policy maybe different. If your within 2 hours dot won't give you grief about that. The stuff I have seen on scale house walls is almost indescribable . One showed OK City to Mojave ca in 1 drive shift.

When fatigue sets in you can't even logically figure it out, hence the whole point about stop and sleep. If your shaving more than rounding off your 15 minutes its going to put you way over speed. Just writing down less miles at the top of the page does not shorten up the distance traveled when you get audited.

You really need to double check your log after your nap before you drive. It amazing how a few hours sleep change the way you look at the book.