logging the legal speed limits

DOT man and your company will know some thing is up if can log all day at 65mph. A lot of companies and DOT that a know, want to see 3mph under the legal speed limit. With going up and down hills, traffic and such you can not legally log the speed limit.

Mark

 

Yes, that should be fine.

Mark

 

Each company has a different guideline for the maximum allowable speed they will accept for logging purposes.

They know it is a physical impossibilty to average 65 mph in a truck that is governed at 65. You will have traffic and hills in addition to construction zones and weigh stations which will reduce that average.

That said most companies will not give you any grief so long as you are 2 to 3 miles under the posted speed limit for the state you were traveling in. Be sure to check with the safety department and ask them what they allow for maximum average speed on logs.

Many companies have started using log book scanners which have the parameters set by the safety department. Each log will be scanned electronically and checked for hos violations and speed.

Be careful you do not get into "pattern logging." This is logging the same speed for each day you were driving. DOT will expect to see a variance. Some days you may only average 50 mph others you may average closer to 70 (provided you have a truck that will run 75 mph and your traveling out west).

This is where "log it as you do it" comes into play. Monkeying with your average speed by condensing travel times and shaving miles can get you into trouble if your caught.

 

HoS rules are based in theory. So that is how 99% of us log. In theory.

 

That is one of best lines about HOS the I have heard in a long time.

Mark

 

During my recent level 1, they reviewed my logs. They looked at the neat drawings and the numbers written on the side of each grid. They never added them up to see if I was over the 70. I never put the totals on the logs. It was the first day after a 34 break.

If it looks neat, and the lines are straight, they don't look to close.

 

And keep the TRASH offa da DASH!!

 

that is great

we log at 60-63mph