Log book question - loggin "Local"

My company works local, regional and long haul runs.
My question is if I do 3 or 4 local runs in the morning and then head out of town for the afternoon or a few days can log line 4 "local" for a few hours or so and then jump up to line 3 when I head out of town?

 

My understanding: If you do not leave the same city for those local runs, you can log your time on line 4, then add up your accumulated in-city drive time and put it on line 3 at the end of your on-duty time.

I'm sure LogsRus will be along momentarily to clarify everything

 

Ask LogsRus she is the greatest she knows her logs

 

You said it correctly

You could combine all time spent on duty and log it first and then show all the driving time last. This way when you go to do the OTR work you won't 'DRIVE" passed the 14th hour.

 

Logs, I must be having a senior moment, I am not getting the process of putting the time on two different lines. Can you clarify a little more for an old fart.

 

Yea I'm lost too.

 

Ok lets say you are working today for 8 hours right!

Now 4 hours out of that you was actually driving, another 3 hours you was actually on-duty, 1 hour of that time you was eating at Outback steak house (yummy sounds good).

You would show

3 hours on-duty, then you would show 1 hour meal break, then you would show 4 hours of driving.

Thus you could continue to drive for 3 more hours OTR!

Does that make more sense.

Or you could log it as it happened, which means showing when you stopped and left (I like this method better, however makes it harder on drivers).

Here is the Q & A for a driver who is filling out log sheets: Keep in mind if you read something different it's because they are discussing the 100 air mile radius driver, you are an Over the road driver (OTR). Well assuming my memory is correct here

Question 6: How should multiple short stops in a town or city be recorded on a record of duty status?

Guidance: All stops made in any one city, town, village or municipality may be computed as one. In such cases the sum of all stops should be shown on a continuous line as on-duty (not driving).
The aggregate driving time between such stops should be entered on the record of duty status immediately following the on-duty (not driving) entry. The name of the city, town, village, or municipality, followed by the State abbreviation where all the stops took place, must appear in the "remarks" section of the record of duty status.

 

Ok so if I understand this correctly, The normal driving time is shown on line 3, on duty (not driving) on line 4, with a note in remarks area that .75 hrs(just an example) driving was done while on line 4. As I understand it the driving done on duty not driving, includes the .75 hrs. Is this right.

 

Thanks Logs but I was hoping that I could log all stops in a 100 mile radius of the terminal as "Local" before I headed out of town.

In suburbia I possibly could leave the terminal in one town drive across the street to pick up a load in another town and drive 8 miles down the road and deliver it in a third town and complete the run in 20 Min's. If I'm local all day that's not a problem, but if my dispatcher sends me out of state in the afternoon after doing 4-5 of those runs my log book looks like a 1st grader filled it out.

 

No you must log it either as it happens or like I said and I am going to post an example after I post this.

Now local drivers reporting to the same location and not going over 100 air mile radius only has to track the clock in time and clock out time basically.

But since you are going OTR after that local work you must log it as I explained.