LogBook Would you...??

Zonar, we do all our pre- and post-trips, child-checks (remember, I'm still driving a school bus), and our time punches with this system. It's pretty good, tbh, despite the "big brother" aspects (I HATE getting nagged about idling so they can pad the manager's bonus).

 

We have to do both, at the appropriate times. We have drivers who figured out how to cheat the zonar scans (by punching them in manually, and not actually walking and inspecting), but I think they took that option out.

 

had a local driver working for me all he was required to have was record of hours worked. he used a calender to show the hours he worked on any given day. as a general rule of thumb the less paper you have to show the dot man the better off you will be. be safe out there

 

Hi Lux, I drive a local delivery tank truck daily but we just picked up a customer where i go outside the 100 mile mark a few times a month and in some situations even an overnight run. How do you handle the log book for a situation like that when your logbook is suppose to show the previous 7 days when i wasn't required to use one. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Question 20: When a driver fails to meet the provisions of the 100 air-mile radius exemption (section 395.1(e)), is the driver required to have copies of his/her records of duty status for the previous seven days? Must the driver prepare daily records of duty status for the next seven days?

Guidance: The driver must only have in his/her possession a record of duty status for the day he/she does not qualify for the exemption. The record of duty status must cover the entire day, even if the driver has to record retroactively changes in status that occurred between the time that the driver reported for duty and the time in which he/she no longer qualified for the 100 air-mile radius exemption. This is the only way to ensure that a driver does not claim the right to drive 10 hours after leaving his/her exempt status, in addition to the hours already driven under the 100 air-mile exemption.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/395.8?guidance