logging record

Don't know why you would log it all sleeper berth. Logging Off duty covers you if you're in the sleeper, in a hotel, or at home, or whatever else you may do in the span of a few days. A cop will be pretty certain you didn't spend 48 hours in the sleeper, no matter how fancy a rig you may have.

 

Log off duty when your not in the sleeper or working.. You can log 10 hours off duty with no sleeper berth and get your 14 back.

 

The best advice I can give is to log it exactly how you do it. If your at home, go to the Off Duty Line. If your sitting at a truck stop waiting for dispatch to give you a load. Off Duty and Sleeper Time. If your traveling down the road, relocating yourself to get a better chance at freight, or relocating freight, on duty driving time.

Really depends on what your referring to. But over all, log it like ya do it. If ya know your about to do something that isnt logable, maybe its time to go sleepy after you park the rig

 

Yup...log it as you do it. There was a thread just a while back where the driver claimed he got a log violation for doing just that...listing two days straight as sleeper birth...officer claimed bull that there was no way he wasn't out of his truck for two days...may or may not have been BS on the story, but why give them a chance to question it!

 

the other lil caveat to that is to log 8 hours of a 10 in the sleeper
if there is a problem later some slick attorny is going to say he was fatigued with 10 hours off duty not sleeping
now off for days I just go off duty whether i am around the TS or not
thou i try to not waste my life doing a reset at the TS

 

is ther any online refereces to begin learning about the log book? see a lot of posts and would like to be able to get started on learning how to keep it and what is required, or would i be better off just waiting for school and trainer to tech me? kind of like to get a jump start on anything i can learn before trying to cram it all in at one time

 

most companies will train you to thier expectations especially on elog just take it as it goes
the goverment speak requirements is confusing at best compared to the reality