Max time you spend in sleeper birth?

Either his trainer was stupid or he didn't pay attention with all these threads

 

See my last post on this thread

 

The title of this subforum is Question from New Drivers. The title of this thread is (What is the) Max time you spend inthe sleeper?

OK I gave the best advice I know which is to log it like you do it and do it like you log it meaning if you go to the sleeper. log it and if you get out of the sleeper log it off duty, also not to show too much time in the sleeper as that raised obvious questions a regular person may not be able to handle from an aggressive authrority figure and conversely do not neglect to log sleeper if you indeed spent time inthe sleeper. Those things fall under Falsification which bring huge fines to the driver and even larger fines to the carrier.

Laugh and ridicule, stretch out your phallic resume as some sort of proof of your (lack) of knowledge all you want but please do not put out bad advice for these new drivers who are coming into the trucking industry to feed their families. The poor advice you give could cost them their job.

 

Cops both general traffic and MCSAP/CVSA/DOT generally will make up their minds on citations etc during that first few minutes. Become a ######## knowitall and you can guarantee a ticket. Try to listen to the cop and act accordingly and often times either you can walk away free and clear or with reduced charges. Most of the MCSAP/CVSA/DOT cops know their stuff and undergo continued training. It is always a good policy to just listen to them. Unfortunately there are hardheads like the guy in the below video that make life hard on all of us.



I think this is in several parts I am not going to post them all.

 

You are misquoting the rules. I have NEVER in over 30 years seen a driver get a log book ticket because they logged 100% of their break in the sleeper. It is just not done, sorry you advice to log it as you do it is sound, but not the changing off duty status to fulfill some none existent rule.

 

You can check CFR part 395.8 yourself, here is an excerpt

(f) The driver's activities shall be recorded in accordance with the following provisions:

(1) Entries to be current. Drivers shall keep their records of duty status current to the time shown for the last change of duty status.

Entries to be current. There is no question or interpretation there. This is rock solid concrete proof that when you get out of the sleeper to go pee you must bring your duty status to off duty and pronto, meaning current (right fricken now).

 

Have you not saw all his threads and I gave my advice it's a public forum but go ahead there super trucker see if you can teach him being the ultimate professional driver. Do you not have a video he can watch?

 

Where do some of these drivers come up with these stories?

A DOT officer asked them if they left the truck while in sleeper berth status to go pee? Then put them in violation if they didn't change their duty status to off duty?

C'mon man, that's bull...

 

Leave him alone don't you know he is a super trucker

 

If you're on paper and a duty status change takes less than 8 minutes, how would you log that on a 15 minute graph?