Quiz for those just learning logs, is this legal?

if you are not driving or physicaly working. (loading,making road side repair) you are off duty.( in the resturant eating,using the head, getting washed, at home, in walmart off duty!)

 

Perfectly legal.

 

Another excellent reason to wear a watch, set to home terminal, and stop relying on the auto update time feature on magic phones. A watch has one job and it does it very well, it's not so smart that it gets people in trouble.

Like automatic headlights, it doesn't solve problems, it changes what problems are caused, besides making people even less involved in their own actions. I don't want my gear making decisions, I want it to be reliable about what it does and I will make the decisions.

 

No. If you are in the sleeper and log it as OFF-DUTY, that is log falsification.

 

That is the way I do it. Although phones do have the ability to turn off the auto-time/date feature.

 

Do you have documentation or proof of this?
I am not able to find actual proof of my statement but from-
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/truck/driver/hos/hos-faqs.asp#_Toc111021265
I found;
G. SLEEPER BERTHS
G-1. May a driver spend part of his or her 34-hours of consecutive off-duty time in a sleeper berth?

Yes, provided the 34-hour period is consecutive and not broken by on-duty or driving activities.

It did not say that you have to log SB. If you are sleeping in a hotel room you would log it as off duty. If you are on a 10 hour break I can find no reason to log part of it as SB. What difference does it make where you are? You are just as much off duty in the berth.

 

If you're in the SB, you log SB. If you're not, you don't. But feel free to try it your way.

 

you only log sleeper birth if you are sleeping. if you are in sleeper watching tv for 4 hours this is "off duty" not falsification. sleeper birth means sleeping . driving means driving on duty means working but not driving and off duty is anything else

 

in a hotel room is like going home "off duty" you are not sleeping in truck.

 

No. Sleeper-Berth applies when in the Sleeper-Berth. There are no regulations regarding sleeping, although there is a requirement to be fully rested.