My Company Wants Me To Drive a non-ELD Pickup Truck for 2-day delivery. How to Account?

Everyone in this thread is over complicating the F out of this.

PICKUP TRUCK. No logbook, no entering jack into your eld. Take the pickup and haul whatever it is, wherever its going. Turn and burn back home.

 

MAYBE, in fact, most likely! Thing is the OP has not told us anything other than a pickup. Agreed if it is just a simple delivery just drive the truck. Thing is it becomes a bit more complicated if that pickup has been placarded with hazmat! And you can guarantee once a placard is placed on that pickup it becomes a CMV!

 

Simple solution to a simple bosses demands. Little expensive, but doable....

 

I get the impression some of the people responding would log on duty if their neighbor gave them $20 to cut the grass.

"Gotta log all work performed, don't want to be messing with DOT regs".

 

I think about the hardest I ever laughed at a scale was the NorthBound I 85 scale in Carnesville Ga. The DOT was checking logbooks and sending most trucks across the static scale. Right in front of me was a F 150 pickup. The guy got pulled around. The cop checking log books and I both were laughing when he scanned mine. He said the "boss" was going to read him the riot act about wasting their time!

 

Two days off work?. I don't know of any DOT reg that requires drivers to list their location and activities while not at work.

I suppose if he rear ended a DOT officer while driving the pickup and a bunch of cargo and BOLs got scattered around the accident scene he would be well and truly screwed.

I kinda think having that story to tell would be worth it though.

 

Slightly related. At a former job, I was on the yard and put my truck in the shop to get some stuff done. Safety calls me in and said I need to go renew my med card. I tell them my truck is in the shop so they throw me the keys to the company pickup and send me to the local testing place.

While I out in the pickup, I swing by Walmart bought some stuff, then hit Captain D's for lunch.

Should I have logged on duty for the trip to the med center seeing as how I was in a company vehicle and safety knew for sure where I was and why?. Should I have logged the time to drive to the med center,time spent there and time back to the yard,but not the trip to Walmart and to lunch?.

 

I don't remember ever logging my physicals. In fact, I only remember logging a drug screen once. It's also been almost 8 years since I last drove!