Paperwork time. To be or not to be perfectly legal.

I think that the HOS apply to those who drive CMV, and those who don't the HOS is of no concern. If I drive and do the clerical job, they may say that the clerical job affects my fatigue and therefore may compromise my driving "freshness", therefore I need to log it too. Of course, I am not someone who would do it for real or even have any qualms about it, but I wanted to know, if anything like that can be a rabbit pulled out of the hat by officials. They do these "surprise, surprise" tricks sometimes, for example, every time you stop at the braking area in CA at the Donner pass (mandatory stop) you have to log it, it is less than 5 minutes stop, but the weigh station down in Citrus Heights, will ask why you did not log the stop,or at least marked it. You can't just say that it was included in the driving time. Same thing with WY port of entry. I seem to have plenty of hours before I hit 70 nowadays, but to be perfectly honest load searches, brokers calling I do while lying down in the sleeper bed and it takes sometimes hours. I drive and talk to brokers as well and generally it seems that I am preoccupied with this searching for the next load staff all the time. So if I wanted to log it all I would run out of 70 fast. Thanks for the replies, I'll just skip logging this staff, as it does appear to be in a grey area.

 

A doll house? I used to be a piano player too. Nobody ever tipped me. But maybe I was drunk too often to remember.