Need dot consultant? Dot advice

Most likely he just wants it to cover himself, but that doesn't work anymore. The last thing either of you need after driving while out of hours and getting away with it is written proof that you did it in the company records for the next auditor that comes along to find. Boss needs to chill.

 

If you were over 3 hours past your 14 and the DOT finds out about it, it is an automatic fine to you of $2,750 and a fine to the company of $11,000 plus however many points. Your boss needs to rethink what he's trying to pin on you and realize that he's going to hurt himself and the company much more trying to pin it all on you than he will by letting it go.

Company has to keep 3 years of logs on file so figure they can go back at least that far.

 

what can you do about a company that ignores you're messages on the qcom .that the tractor you are driving is not barely road worthy.

 

Find a better company. I know that's not the most satisfying answer, but that's the best advice I can give. Get out before you end up paying for their ineptitude.

 

thank you

 

I am pretty sure this is true even though we don't normally use log books (we usually stay under 12 hrs and under 100 miles) and I was in the class C straight truck, but am not positive on that. If so I think I'll be way better off not putting anything in writing.

Thanks all

 

That's the auto fines for texting +/or using a hand held phone.
The company has to have 6 months logs and matching records and 90 days of DVIRs...

I watch a boss pay $17.000.00 for 40 'False Logs'.
That a lot worse than going a few hours over.

 

The fines are set at the same amount but this is a new rule. And yes, they can hit you with more fines based on the existing rules. So it would have been $17,000 plus $2,750 to the driver and $11,000 to the company for each time they found someone driving 3 hours over if the new rule had been in effect when your boss got caught.

 

Since you don't use a log book I will assume you are a local driver paid by the hour. My company uses our time cards, local driver allowed to work 12 hours, off 8, work 12. I am a local driver and have ocasionally gone over on hours, not by plan, #### happens. Never has my boss aproached me to explain why I was over on hours. The question should be why did you run out of fuel, was it a bad gauge or did you try to go an extra mile. This is nothing about DOT but they want to discipline you because you ran out fuel and they are trying to figure out how much that cost them.

 

Oh , BS . Show a single citation on record for that . Carriers that were cited for multiple HOS violations found during an audit have been fined less than $10,000 and the drivers weren't fined at all .
I didn't see anything about falsifying a log . An HOS violation for going over hours is not nearly as serious as falsifying logs to hide a violation .