Paper logs ... not worth it

Question 26: If a driver is permitted to use a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) for personal reasons, how must the driving time be recorded?

Guidance:

a driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work, time spent traveling from a driver’s home to his/her terminal (normal work reporting location), or from a driver’s terminal to his/her home, may be considered off-duty time. Similarly, time spent traveling short distances from a driver’s en route lodgings (such as en route terminals or motels) to restaurants in the vicinity of such lodgings may be considered off-duty time. The type of conveyance used from the terminal to the driver’s home, from the driver’s home to the terminal, or to restaurants in the vicinity of en route lodgings would not alter the situation unless the vehicle is laden. A driver may not operate a laden CMV as a personal conveyance. The driver who uses a motor carrier’s Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) for transportation home, and is subsequently called by the employing carrier and is then dispatched from home, would be on-duty from the time the driver leaves home.

A driver placed out of service for exceeding the requirements of the hours of service regulations may not drive a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) to any location to obtain rest.

 

Regulations Section see question 26

 

Yep, good old days where if you knew you were ahead of a storm in Wyoming you tried to stay ahead of it as long as possible.

Now, yay, you get to shut down and then enjoy it with everyone else.

 

Ya know I have always thought to be successful at trucking you needed common sense. Some instincts in the fight or flight line etc. I can't see where a squawking box is gonna take those two judgement calls from me. I'm gonna take care of me regardless

 

When your rolling thru and you see the flash of the camera's....

 

360SmartView

 

I have been put out of service this year at Shamrock, TX facility on I-40 .I paid $250 for the ticket . the officer was using 360smartview.

 

Indiana DOT stated that Personal Conveyance is BOBTAIL only....To a hotel,food,ect..
He said most will ticket you if not bobtail....He had just been at the FMCSA training on ELDs...

 

And others are saying that it just has to be unloaded. I've called a half-dozen and gotten both answers. The FMCSA will be clarifying this - I wonder which way they will go...

 

I bet they go with bobtail and some other BS rules!