My trainer screw up today with my dot time, how that happen?

Today we was suppose to drive to Washington from Utah, when it was my time to drive my dot time was 2:30 n Im like how that happen? So now we had to swap trailers n wait till late tonight to get moving again. How did that happen, aint u suppose to start off withh 11hrs dot time every day? I need to figure out logs n how to work the qualcom better... The school didnt teach much about logs n stuff

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Your time allowed all depends on your recap within the past 8 or 7 days (forgive me, i'm a local driver). Your trainer should be teaching you this. If he had paid attention, this would not have happened. In other words, he needs to teach you or you need to get another trainer. Are you team training?? Which company are you with??

KH

 

You will need to learn.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/topics/hos/hos-logbook-examples.htm

You have 11 hours to drive each driving period after a 10 DOT break, not to exceed your On Duty Weekly hours.

You must also watch your daily hours for On Duty (14). If you have less than 11 hours left on your 14 your driving hours cannot exceed that also.

Sounds like you did not go to line 1/2 when your trainer started to drive and you left yourself on line 3.

If you are unsure of or your trainer is not sure of, contact your safety department for a logging class. Don't wait to get on the road by yourself and not know how to log correctly. Big fines.

 

Sounds like he drove while logged in under your name. You need to call whoever is in charge of logs at your company, explain what happened, and see if they can fix the error as you both could technically be written up for falsification.

 

All depends how many hours you have coming back. Have to watch your recaps.

And agree learn the log book forward and backwards, you wallet depends on it. Mess up, your fined, Have an accident it could place you behind bars.

 

I have notice this alot. I have had pulled over to the side of the road to assist an newbie in his Log book. His trainer did very little instructions on the logbook and as the OP School did nothing near what they should have. But I had passed a company truck after I went O/O and the driver would yell out to me begging for help. He needed help big time and was clueless on his logs. He said he asked his DM, but the DM had no clue also.

 

70 hours goes by very fast in 8 days. You can review your last 7 days plus today's hours on elogs or just add them up every day on paper logs and subtract from 70.

70 divided by 8 equals 8.75 hours. This is where time management will come in to play. If you drove a big 11 hour day today, maybe tomorrow only turn in about 5 hours so your 2 day average is still at the 8 hour level.
Another way is to work/drive 10 hours every day and every 8th day take a full 24 hours off.

 

The school I went to was cr england n this trainer said he been training for 10 yrs, must all i know is u cant drive no more then11hrs n once cant drive after been on duty 14hrs for the day n log everything u do

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WOW England did better than that when I went through their program. Wish I knew a way to help you more.

 

That's a nice thought but it always possible or practical. Management of hours also watching them everyday and includes the word "NO" when one does run to the wall. I don't think the OP's trainer knows or understands the system electronic or otherwise.