Two logs. How to?

I'll make the question very clear then. Find me a case where the driver was jailed due to an illegal logbook after being found not at fault in the accident at hand.

I'm not overly concerned over lawsuits for 2 reasons.

1. I'm better off financially than the majority of the US so odds are the person who trys to commit suicide by truck will not be able to take me to court and if they do they will be quickly defeated or I'll just beat them in a battle of attrition where they will run out of money before I do.

2.your counter argument is but ambulance chasers work for free!!!! Yes they do, but they only take slam dunk cases. They want the big payout. Anyone worth their salt won't waste their time with a weak case. If they have already proven me not guilty of any crime or fault in the accident at hand they won't touch it.

 

4 legged critters.

 

I want to remember something about getting into the mud to wrestle with a pig. After a while you see the pig is enjoying it. Its hard to reason with a knowitall about everything, and I just don't have the energy any longer.

 

Your a bit of a sore loser ya know... You should take this opportunity to educate yourself.

 

I'm barely capable of filling out 1 log book No way it'd be worth me trying to do 2 logs!

 

To the OP, one thing that I have learned through the years is that if you really feel that you need 2 logs to be successful in this industry then you are doing something wrong. Either with the wrong company or making poor decisions on a day to day basis. I mean this with no disrespect....... If it's illegal don't do it.

 

I had a level 1 the other day, I passed. She said they pulled me in becuase i was not under a load and would not delay me that long.That was considerate but i still had to make my pick up before they closed.

My log was legit in that the hours a ran were not over. But she never looked at the miles I had driven within the hours I logged. Had she done that I would have been likely out of service.

It was a wake up call for me. I have been being more careful but still am not running totally legal. Moral to the story is watch yourself, all it takes is one intelligent DOT officer to ruin your day.

 

that is, of course, you are NOT on a 'company per diem' program. Then again, some companies, from what I've heard, you might want to get 6 months of print outs(on elogs) if their per diem program is 'wacky'

 

Even if you ARE on a company's per diem program, you STILL need to keep track of your days out and calculate what your deduction would have been, and compare it to what you were payed without taxes being deducted as a "reimbursement" for the per diem. If they paid you more pre-tax than what you were otherwise eligible for, you still owe the taxes on that money. If they shorted your pre-tax per diem pay, you may still deduct the difference.

Per diem pay just makes more work for you come tax time, saves the company money (employment taxes and benefits paid on a lower base wage), and screws the driver (social security, disability, unemployment, ect... all calculated on the artificially lower "base" rate, not including the per diem reimbursement). Personally, I'd never work for a place that told me I HAD to take it.