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ELD for truck driven part time

Discussion in 'ELD Forum | Questions, Answers and Reviews' started by Bdog, Aug 13, 2018.

  1. Aug 13, 2018 #1
    Bdog

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    Let’s say a truck (and driver) only drives around two weeks a month. The rest of the the time they are either completely off duty or working in the shop, working at other job sites, etc. They might not even be in the same state as the truck that has the device mounted in it during the two weeks they are not driving it.

    They don’t qualify for the no more than 8 days in 30 exemption nor the local air mile exemption.

    So my question is how do these devices work for someone like that? When it comes time to drive do they have to sit there and manually enter their hours into it for each day they were not driving so it has a record of their previous 7 days?

    The ELDs in general seem like they would be easy to use for someone who drives the truck everyday but for those who don’t and even when they are driving the majority of their hours or not driving I don’t see them working so good or even as intended. Driving too many hours or even close to the limit has never been an issue for us but we often run up against the limit of hours worked in a week due to working other than driving. The ELD has no way to know if someone is working or not it only knows if the truck is moving.
     
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  3. Aug 13, 2018 #2
    ZVar

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    It's fairly straight forward.
    Go off duty (Optionally log out) then do other things for 2 weeks as long as it's not compensated, or work for the motor carrier.
    When time to drive the truck, log in, go on duty, the ELD will keep the last 7 as off duty.

    Now the problem comes in to play if you are doing other jobs. You will have to go back and add all that on-duty time to be legal....
     
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  4. Aug 13, 2018 #3
    Bdog

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    Keeping up with the on duty not driving time is what concerns me.

    It seems if you were driving and doing it on a daily basis it wouldn’t be a big deal but it seems like it would be a major pain if you had not been around the truck in a week and had to manually enter everything.
     
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  5. Aug 13, 2018 #4
    Makeajump

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    That’s where having the app on my iPhone and my portal on my computer comes in handy.
     
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  7. Aug 16, 2018 #5
    brian991219

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    Get one that allows you to remotely log on-duty or off-duty and do that each day as you do the regulated work away from the truck. This will keep the record current and continuous and is perfectly legal. UPS fought for and won this ability for all because their drivers begin their RODS with a handheld scanner inside the terminal before ever going anywhere near their truck.

    Not all ELDs allow for this but many do, find one that lets you put an app on your smartphone and simply keep the record current.
     
    brian991219, Aug 16, 2018
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  8. Sep 3, 2018 #6
    jescott418

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    Seems like you could use a simple smartphone logging ELD to do this and you may even get buy with using a local 100 mile radius option depending on how far you operate.
     
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  9. Sep 3, 2018 #7
    Triple Digit Bullhauler

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    E = Easy
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  10. Sep 10, 2018 #8
    x1Heavy

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    It does not matter.

    When you get into that tractor trailer any time, you start the new 70 hour clock in 8 days. You will run that truck as such that week.

    Whatever you do after that week in the rest of the month or year you have to retain that record of logs 6 months. Even if you only ran one or two weeks a month, you still log it against the 70 hours in last 8 days rolling recap.

    If you are taking a load around a state or crossing state lines, you are required to keep a duty log of service, driving, onduty not driving up to 70 hours in 8 days and then within the daily 11/14 hour limitations before you are required to hit the sleeper or find a hotel (Or drive home after parking the truck in your yard)

    If you drove one day or 30 days a month, you still need to keep logs and then hold on to them 6 months.
     
    x1Heavy, Sep 10, 2018
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