Why aren't logs required for local work?

115.0779, actually.

 

I've always had to log everything as a local driver.It may not be a fmcsa requirement but that doesn't mean the employer won't require it.

 

ICC was disbanded in 1995.

To make this simpler and more accurate: The federal government has the power to set the standards (rules and regulations) for all interstate commerce (that includes trucking). Done deal, one of the federal government's enumerated powers and always have been that way.

Now states can have whatever rules they want for intrastate commerce, but any disassociation with federal rules will cause incongruence with most trucking operations since many if not most are interstate.

Furthermore, if states do not go along with the federal game plan they can loose the opportunity for federal funds for the interstate freeway system. So most tend to go along with all the federal rules that they can without upsetting the local trucking lobby's apple cart.

As, such the ICC and the HOS laws were always intended to be as much labor law as safety law. The log book makes no sense as a labor law or safety law if the diver reports back to the same location and punches a time clock.

Log books only made sense at when roads, maps, local time zones, road conditions, ect. were far beyond an employer's or local labor boards purview. Since those obsticals are long gone, seams like the time for log books to disappear too.

 

I wish they would pull in more local companies; their trucks are usually held together with glue most of the time. I've never seen a nice dump truck in south Florida

 

I have only driven local. 2.5 years and I have received 3 level one inspections, I left with a sticker on my windshield 3 times.

 

Same I've been local my whole career, but I've always had a new kenworth when taking i75 to and from fort myers/Tampa area.
3 years never had a dot encounter; but I'm somewhat of a nazi when it comes to my truck. Plus my company has nice equipment

 

Yes it is. I worked as a dispatcher for a local final-mile delivery service. They had a minimum of 15 stops in a day. Some they would just hop out and put the item on the porch and hop back in the truck, some they had to assemble the item inside the home of the purchaser.

I would LOVE to see what a logbook would have looked like for one of my drivers! LOL

 

Were local and we have elogs, looks like a ekg...

 

Back when I was doing a multi-drop trip (15-25 drops in 3 and a half days), I spent a lot of time with the log on the steering wheel. I then switched to elogs and did the same trip and saved anywhere from 10-15 minutes a day just on logbook paperwork.

8 out of 10 of the top mile earners at my company run elogs. I understand driver's reluctance to switch for lack of "flexibility", but honestly, I enjoy driving long distance even more now. No more paranoia about the paper log being wrong.

 

I've never been paranoid. I don't roll unless my log book is legal to roll or I'm able to claim the 100 air-mile radius exemption.