Log book question

These are correct answers.
Use loose leaf logs and never keep more than last 7 days logs plus today's log.

There's an ignorant state trooper in Michigan that claims to be an ex- owner/operator and says he knows all the tricks with log books. He will try to scam you into showing logs over 7 days old and even ask if you have last months logs. If you show them he goes over them; one driver waited 2 hours while he combed over the log books. The only things he could find though, he said "you're running too tight" so I'm putting you out of service and having your truck towed, which he did. Investigation showed the state trooper always called the same tow company to tow trucks he stops. He does this daily and probably making tons of money on kickbacks from the tow company. There's an article about this state trooper clown in Land Line Magazine.

 

AMEN Kemosabi49... Don't ever, I mean ever, give up anything/information that wasn't asked fo,r or that the law does NOT require you to give up.

Chinatown...where abouts is this MI LEO you speak of?

 

Excuse my ignorance but what is running too tight?

 

Running too tight?
When I was driving I used loose leafs, never a book.
I would start my day with a clean sheet, mark down what I needed as I was going on to make it legal if I got stopped during the day, in the evening I found that I could shave a few min. here and there, making it look like I ran real tight, then I also had no top speed limit in my computer, that way I could save on my hours towards the 70 hours.

 

That's one of the benefits to e-logs, it will only show the day your on and the prior 7

 

I will repeat others, pull the staples. Loose leaf is your friend, and the DOT, while they don't like it, cannot do anything.

 

The only reason to save logs is for taxes. If you take per diem on your itemized tax write off. The old logs will prove you were out on the road. But you don't have to shown old logs to the bears. I ran loose leaf and tore out pages sometimes. Stupid Walmart distribution centers.

 

You can tear them out, it's fine, don't let people freak you out over that dumb crap...I rewrote logs EVERY DAY without fail...Next time someone says it's "illegal", reach in your pocket and pull out all your cash and bet them they can't show you where it's illegal...

 

If you're on paper logs it's impossible to run tight!