log books

We need more info on just what you are asking . Logging off duty will not run you out of hours . Short off duty or sleeper breaks will count against your 14 hour clock for the day but will not count toward the 70 hours in 8 days .
If you have another job other than driving , whether it's flipping burgers or some other type work it is considered on duty and must be logged on past seven days when you drive .

 

I agree, more info would be nice. You are required by law to log EVERYTHING you do.

 

so your telling me if i only work 40 hr week mon thru fri i have to log what i do on the weekend? am i to carry the log book everywhere i go?

 

That depends, Do you have a job that you get paid to do on the week ends? If so then yes. it must be logged as "On duty, Not driving" and will count toward your 70. If not and the time is yours to do with as you wish. Then it is logged as "Off Duty". As long as you are in trucking ALL time must be accounted for in one way our another.

FYI Don't do as some have and figure that the DOT will never know about that weekend job. On a day by day bases that may be true. But if something happens, Your fault or not, When they go to looking into your life. they will find out.

 

What? ..So I come home for the week end and my mominlaw wants her oil changed in her car so were supposed to log this .... Please maybe you shoud quote the regs..

 

Say you finish work on Friday and you don't have a part time job . When you come back Monday you can just use one page , write a line all the way across line 1 , OFF DUTY , but only write 24 hours in the box . The dates will show you were off 2 days . Some logs have a space on them saying "Number of days off , including today " . It would be best to ask your safety department about this .
Now if you get compensated for any other work during the weekend you must do as Kabar said and record those hours as ON DUTY .

 

Are you being paid as a mech in a repair shop to do this. Then yes. That time is "On duty, Not driving" If you are just doing it becuase she asked you to then the week is "Off duty". Still logged. ALL time must be accounted for. If you get paid to do it as a job then it is "On duty. Not driving" otherwhise it's "off duty" but it must be logged as something. If you take a 2 week vacation to England it must be logged as "Off Duty" . Those 2 weeks must be accounted for.

Reg is 395.2 look under "On duty time" # 8 and 9.

 

The key thing to worry about is whether you are being paid to do the work. If not, no problem. Working in your yard, painting the house is all work, but not compensated.

Otherwise, don't worry about it.

 

Sleeper berth time is any amount of time spent inside the sleeper berth (e.g., resting or sleeping). FMCSA regulation §393.76 gives the minimum requirements for a space to be defined as a sleeper berth.[6] The simple definition is an area separate from (usually immediately behind) the driving controls that includes a bed. The rules do not explicitly require that a driver must sleep, only that a driver must take a period of "rest" within the sleeper berth or off-duty (i.e., home). A statement made by the ICC in 1937 gives the reason: "We have no control over the manner in which a driver may spend his time off-duty, although some of his spare time activities may tire him as much as any work would do. We can only emphasize, by this comment, the responsibility which is the driver's own to assure himself of adequate rest and sleep, in the time available for this purpose, to insure safety of his driving, and likewise the employer's responsibility to see that his drivers report for work in fit condition."[2]
Off-duty time is any time not spent on-duty, driving, or in the sleeper berth