Logbook rules

If I drive my rig from home to a yard to pick up my trailer, Do I start driving time at my home or after I pick up the trailer? Its an hours drive to pick up trailer. So Im using 2 hours of my drive time there and back daily.

 

Are you being paid to go get the trailer? if you are your time starts when you move that tractor. I think the rules say that if you are to be compensated for the time/and or miles then they must be logged.

 

so does that mean i DON'T have to log my loading times.

cuz i don't get paid for strapping and tarping. i only get paid to drive.

 

Read the regs and the interpretations, it's all there for you:

 

Since most tarping is a requirement of of flat bedders job and would believe that your compensation is part of your per mile pay although many companies pay extra to do so. If you can't find it in the regs email Old blue.

 

No. No. and, No.

Thanks for playing.

 

to the op.. you can log off duty driving on the way home since you are releived of duty. but drive back has to be logged driving since you been dispatched on a load.

 

So then how do you explain to the dot for the change of place between the off duty and your start of day because there not at the same place?

 

Off-duty driving. I've never been questioned, and I even received a level 3 while driving bobtail off-duty. The officer didn't even blink.

 

Similarly, time spent traveling short distances from a driver's en route lodgings (such as en route terminals or motels) to restaurants in the vicinity of such lodgings may be considered off-duty time. The type of conveyance used from the terminal to the driver's home, from the driver's home to the terminal, or to restaurants in the vicinity of en route lodgings would not alter the situation unless the vehicle is laden. A driver may not operate a laden CMV as a personal conveyance.


Based on the above exerpt the drive to your home AND the return to the terminal would qualify as personal conveyance and therefore could be logged as "off duty."

Now the interpretaion of "laden" and "unladen" has many drivers confused. Some drivers will claim personal conveyance when pulling an empty trailer while others will only use the personal conveyance exemption when bobtailing.

I use my truck for personal conveyance ONLY when bobtailing AND when the distance is within 30 miles.