Casual or intermittent driver log question

My "good company" has been using company created/copied form like yours daily for 15 years, maybe. Various drivers have been inspected & that was never a problem. Most of our operation operates on 100 air-mile exemption, but a few of our runs require logbook. Our version of your form used daily by someone, either Temp drivers, or when a short-haul driver has to cover one of the logbook runs. It's never a problem. Like you say it replaces the need of going back and creating accurate log pages just to show you have hours available for today. The problems are always someone familiar ONLY with OTR seeing that form the first time & remembering his 1st company trainer never mentioned it so it must be a war crime or highly illegal. For some reason the regs don't matter only what a driver's 1st company or trainer said in 1978 seems to count.

 

War crimes did not exist in 1978 mind you . He he he....

 

That's just what THEY want you to think.

 

I lived it around truckers. Stories and there are stories. We had a uncle in red ball during ww2. Famed for hauling twice the authroized cans of gasoline while being strafed by the luftwaffe. There was a story that a load of NIKE for Granite Md got lost or stolen. The People who know anything at all about that are dead now so.... I like to think Uncle Sam got his Missiles. Especially those.

 

That form is fine. I use something very similar with no issues. I only work for one company but only drive where I have to log maybe 4-5 days a month. I fill out one of those sheets showing my prior 7 days before I start a trip where I must log. We had them looked at several years ago when audited and no questions were asked about it.

I even take them a step further. For example this past week on Monday I drove the semi 500 miles from home to a job site. I filled out a seven day form for the prior 7 days before I left and used a regular log for the day I drove there. Once I got to the job site I parked the semi and it didn't move all week while we worked there. When it was time to drive home yesterday I wrote down my hours for the week on the seven day form and then again used a regular log book for the drive home.

As far as I can tell there is no requirement to use an official log book on any days you are not driving you just have to have an account of the hours worked so you don't go over your 70 hours and when you were last released from duty so they know you had ten hours off before you start driving.

If you are required to log more days than not it might be easier just to log everyday but if you only have to log occasionally these tally sheets make it much easier to deal with. I use them all the time.