How Long Should I Keep my Log Books?

6 mos. However, if you claim per diem on your income taxes, you might wanna have them in storage for a few years in the event you're ever audited and have to prove the deduction.

 

I got everyone of them now that I can do a digital that's fine I went back and scan all the other stuff took a long time but it's all on a disc

 

That is the best way... scan to a PDF format and save.. a years worth is only about 150mb in PDF format.

 

Save them for posterity sake if nothing else. Grand kids may get a kick out of looking through them some day many years later, especially if you run classic 48 OTR.

 

Also want to keep them long enough to keep IRS happy if you claim your meal allowance. Typically 7 years worth.
As others have stated, I'd scan them in and keep them on a google drive or the like so you will always have them at need.

 

I'm wanting to do something like that one of these years. Take all my old logs and go and make a timeline map of all the place I've been and where. If I ever get time I think it would be neat.

 

Throw them away. No need to collect trash when eld is just about here. It'll have it's own memory bank.

 

I've got all mine back to log number one, June 1997.

 

Exactly why you should keep them. They may be collectors items some day. Trash today, treasure tomorrow.