Logbook for racing?

Is this a business or personal venture?

Business use falls under class A FMCSA regs with the vehicle if the trailer exceeds 10,000 gvwr.

Personal/leisure use doesn't require any logging or commercial requirements.

If you've lettered the truck, you would be wise to cover the info when it's used for personal use. To be safe, it would be smart to document the miles you used it for personal use as well, including personal use fuel consumption as it's not tax deductible.

 

I thought the post was asking a different kind of question. I was just going to say... answer, 2 log books.

 

It imo would be off duty, personal use not under dispatch. you can work as long as you want at the track but you just can't drive after you are on duty for 14 hrs. you are required to take 10 hrs off before you can drive.

 

The use of the truck when you are off duty is like personal conveyance. You do not need to log the use to a motel and such.

 

Doesn't sound like you are going to run out of hours under the circumstances. Go ahead and log everything.
If you are just bobtailing to the motel and back it sounds like personal conveyance, but there is little agreement on exactly what that entails. Scalemaster can give us some guidance here...

 

If you aren't hooked to a trailer, you are under 10,000# and no longer subject to the HOS rules...drive around all you like off duty, and if anybody asks (even if you're pulling the trailer around EMPTY) you are allowed personal use to and from motels, restaurants, etc...in the vicinity of where you are stopped.

While hooked to the trailer hauling to and from the race, you'd be on line 3, and use line 4 during the race if you have any responsibilities during the race (driver, pit crew, etc...)...unless you're just a spectator in which case you'd still be on line 1.

If it is your personal vehicle when you aren't pulling the trailer, I wouldn't worry about the extra miles. Keep a record of which miles were hauling the car, and which miles were personal use. You should be doing that anyway for tax purposes with a dual purpose (business/personal) vehicle since only the business use of the vehicle can be written off.

 

How do you do this without a US DOT number. Most states require this now thanks to the US DOT and their insistence that all commercial vehicles require it - or as it is told to us here in Michigan where they are making even construction pickups get them.