Time Zone Change and HOS

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  1. Ryan S2016

    Ryan S2016 Medium Load Member

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    I just got back from Dothan AL and realizing last night that I went from EST to I believe Mountain Time I traveled backwards. Meaning I went back an hour. Now correct me if I am wrong but as for the 11 hour rule even though I arrived at my destination at 8 pm mountain time, it was actually 9 pm est which was the time zone I went on duty in. So on my log I would put 9 pm right? Or do I actually put the time on the log the truck physically stopped which would of been 8 pm.? Doing that seems like I am cheating the log and if I was questioned by DOT they would look at my BOL and know where I started and it would be obvious I started in another time zone.
    So the question is as for HOS do I put the time the truck stopped in the time zone I was in or do I add the one hour to the log because I did in fact drive that hour.

    Thanks guys hope I made sense asking this question
     
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  3. Scooter Jones

    Scooter Jones Road Train Member

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    You log your time from your company home base.
     
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  4. dptrucker

    dptrucker Road Train Member

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    Its your home teminal
     
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  5. brsims

    brsims Road Train Member

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    Always log for the time zone of your HOME TERMINAL.

    For example:

    My HOME TERMINAL is Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh is in the Eastern Time Zone. But I'm in Chicago, IL which is in the Central Time Zone. My log hours are still shown in Eastern Time Zone. So my pretrip at 6:00 local time (CST) will be logged at 7:00 (EST- Home Terminal time zone)

    This way avoids confusion, and is clearly spelled out in the little green bible as "Da Law".
     
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  6. not4hire

    not4hire Road Train Member

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    You stay in the time zone designated by the carrier as your home terminal. It might be the same time zone as you live in, or the company's office or terminal is in, or it might be one clear across the country. Bottom line, regardless of where your truck is physically, your log book stays in the same time zone.
     
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  7. Truenorthexpress

    Truenorthexpress Light Load Member

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    Dothan, al is in the central time zone. How do you not know where/what time zones you are in. How do you not know how to log properly?
     
  8. BUMBACLADWAR

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    Ya..Like Scooter says,its home base time.You dont suddenly only get 10 hours of drive time when you cross a time zone or 12 hours of drive!
     
  9. dptrucker

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    look at your atlas.will kinda give you an idea. You cell phone should change but dont count on. It if you are nearr the line
     
  10. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    You don't consider the local time zone, only the time zone you work from. As for the Daylight Savings Time/Standard Time, ignore the time change until you get stopped and pretend you only have a stopwatch measuring your various HOS clocks. Adjust to the time change during your Sleeper, Off-Duty, On-Duty Not Driving time. But once again pretend you only have a stopwatch and stop with the "it's Xpm here but that's really Ypm now but it's Zpm back home so what time is it?" When you lose an hour, X out an hour on your log page. When they add an hour, don't ask me, I'm just a truck driver.
     
  11. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Time changes are not covered in most CDL schools. It's very common for new drivers to only discover this issue during the first switch of DST/ST while they are driving. I honestly never thought about it until the time changed while I was OTR. I knew I always logged according to home terminal, but hadn't thought about the time change.
     
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