Logbook for racing?

Wisconsin DOT are pretty helpful, I'd take your log book and swing by a scale house when they are open and have them explain the way they want it done. Then I would get that officers badge number for future reference.

 

There is no need to remove your DOT numbers. The regulations allow for personal conveyance to go to a restaurant and /or to a motel. (you must be unladen and not hauling tools of the trade) There are no requirements for removing markings.

 

I am not racing but am in a similar siuation. We have two pickups with DOT numbers that only have to follow the regs when pulling a trailer out of state. We are under 26k but get caught up in the over 10k interstate commerce. We often haul our trailers to a job site, unhook them and work there for a week or two and then hook them up and drive home.

Accumulating miles and logging is not required when you don't have the trailer as you do not fall under their regs without it. The only tricky part is making sure all your paperwork is straight when go to hook that trailer back up for the trip home. Specifically you need to have an account of your hours for the previous 7 days so they know you are not over your weekly hours. You can't drive if you have worked more than 70 hours in 8 days. In our DOT audit they said we were perfectly ok just writing down our hours for the whole week of working (not regulated driving) on a piece of notebook paper and doing logs on the days actually driving.

So for example we went out of state last week. We wrote our hours for each day of the prior week which was 8-5 m-f on a piece of paper and signed it and then did an official log the day we drove to the job site. Once we dropped the trailers and were just working there and driving pickups around but not regulated since under 10k we went back to writing hours like Monday 8/17 8-5 9hrs on a piece of notebook paper. We then resumed official logs for the drive home. We had hundreds of miles on the pickups from driving around with no trailers that were not logged.

 

The time I have to log something I enjoy is too much Government.

Another job for wages not a problem.

 

Are you traveling over 150 air miles from your house?

Here is a air mile calculator...
https://acscdg.com/
Enter both addresses to see. You’d be surprised how far you can actually go in a straight line. Lol