Elog & truck in shop....

Do you log out of the system? It should just be unassigned driving time at that point.

 

Log out of system. If when you sign back on and the unit assigned the drive time to you, that you didn't drive, ask safety to take care of it. ELD must record ALL miles a truck travels, AOBRD is a lot more lenient. Unfortunately to be able to use AOBRD you had to have the truck hooked up before Dec 18, 2017. All trucks coming on now need to be on ELD, except 1999 or older engine trucks, they can stay on paper.

What's an AOBRD? What's an ELD?
An automatic onboarding recording device is a piece of hardware that connects to a vehicle's engine to record a driver's hours-of-service (HOS). It's functions much like an electronic logging device (ELD) except it records and displays less data. Similar to an AOBRD, an ELD is a piece of hardware that connects to a vehicle's ECM to accurately record a driver's HOS.

However, AOBRDs and ELDs differ in terms of how much data they record and how much editing is allowed. The chart below summarizes the FMCSA's comparison chart and section 395.15 to show how the two devices record data, locations, and editing history. From Big Road.

 

3. Log Out

 

Also as I understand you can be "on duty" for as long as you want, but can't be over the 70 hour rule, you just can't drive after 14 hours on duty. So technically you can start your clock let say 0700 do your pre-trip and drive 10 hours. Then go back on duty for 30 hours and that will be ok, you can not drive until you take a 8hr split or a full 10 hour break.

 

Have access to the admin portal?

Create a driver, called shop or such. Move the drive time to that account.

While an admin cannot make drive time disappear, they can edit it to assign it to the correct driver to be accurate. In this case the correct driver is the shop guy.

 

Everyone has already told you that you should have logged out, but if you are the system admin you should be able to edit anything, including drive time, in admin mode. Mistakes happen and there needs to be a way to correct it. I'd suggest getting in touch with the company who makes the system and ask them about it.

 

Also I would note on the logs that the drive time, if you can't remove it, is shop time. Otherwise you have a falsified log. Plus if the drive time had you in violation it will show that you really aren't/weren't.