Logging as a local driver

You don't need to log a 30min break for air mile work!!!!! Log your start time on. on duty not driving for up to 12 consecutive hours!!! Log fuel stops and pti's THATS IT. It's not rocket science to run a local log people.

you log on duty not driving for up to 12 hours. Not driving line.

Remember you still NEED to update your log every 3 hours though

 

Just remember that once you have all this figured out, the rules will change.

 

Good thread!

 

You sound like you know the rules well until you get to your last paragraph. I assume you are referring to local drivers logging. Local drivers are suppose to log a straight line on line 4. Everything is on duty not driving, even driving.

It is nothing but a time card of sorts. You don't even have to present it to a DOT officer if you are local. The company is responsible for local drivers time and must present it to a DOT officer with in 2 days on request. Logging isn't the rule changer.

Once you step outside the circle then one is not exempt anymore and has to resort to normal logging rules.

 

and remember 100 mile radius is different than driving "100" miles. A 100 mile radius is a lot of area you can drive with out logging.

 

When some folks refer to the "100 mile radius," I have often heard them say air miles or nautical miles... WTF? Is there much difference?

 

The air miles is another term for radius. If you take your map and stick a piece of string cut to 100 miles based on your maps milage scale on the location of your terminal. Then stretch that string out and tie a pencil to it and draw an arc around the center point. That's your 100 mile radius. So can drive in that area with out logging. (Unless over 12hrs)

 

I understand that part, but it's the reference to nautical miles that confused me... it sounds like one air mile is not-the-same distance as one nautical mile. Do you know? Thanks!

 

I think you're wanting air miles for local runs. So, The formula is one air mile equals approximately 1.15 land miles. So your 100 mile radius would be roughly 115 land miles. Hope that helps someone.

 

You can also google air miles from city to city.