Logging a traffic jam?

? Why? I've only logged traffic when I needed the to find a safe haven after waiting for an accident to clear

 

If you're going strictly by the book as long as you are in the drivers seat you stay on line 3 ,driving.No need to over think it,log it as you do it.

 

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/395.2?guidance

Question 25: When a driver experiences a delay on an impassable highway, should the time he/she is delayed be entered on the record of duty status as driving time or on-duty (not driving)?

Guidance: Delays on impassable highways must be recorded as driving time because §395.2 defines “driving time” as all time spent at the driving controls of a Commercial Motor Vehicle CMV in operation.

So, like patty said to be legal you have to log it as driving. Me, I tend to go off duty if the freeway is closed and it's a literal parking lot. I have the truck turned off, and usually I'm outside the truck bs'ing with other drivers waiting for the road to open. If it's simply a very slow moving backup going like 5mph, I do stay driving.

-Steven

 

I would log it as a restroom break

 

If traffic is stopped more than 5 minutes, my elog automatically switches to on duty. If it's delayed enough I set the parking brake, I go off duty.

 

When I worked for Werner 12 years ago all I had to do was pull over to the side of the road at 7 minutes after the hour and punch myself off duty and then eight minutes after the hour all I had to do was switch over to driving and it automatically logged off duty from the top of the hour to the 15 minutes after the hour and I got to drive for 14 of those minutes without having to show it because it rounded everything to the nearest 15 minute increment. Everybody's e-log system works differently