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Can someone explain how elogs work?

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Bdog, Dec 27, 2015.

  1. Dec 27, 2015 #1
    Bdog

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    I get that they have GPS and are tied to the trucks ECM and record all movement so they do a good job of tracking driving hours and when you first started moving the truck on a given day but what if half or more of your hours worked per week are not in the truck at all?

    At my work I am not a driver by definition but I do drive on ocassion outside the air mile radius and need to log but it isn't an every day or even every week thing. These ELD's can't keep track of me when I am not in the truck so do I manually input that info or what?

    I very rarely bump up against against my driving or 14 hours a day but the 70 per week is often a challenge. I might work 12 hour days all week not driving and then need to drive the truck 4-5 hours away one day.
     
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  3. Dec 27, 2015 #2
    crzyjarmans

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    When working not driving, the drive is required to start the log showing that time, SHHH! drivers don't always show all that time
     
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    BigRedNY Thanks this.
  4. Dec 27, 2015 #3
    Trckdrvr

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    I guess the legal or legally correct answer would be that all hours worked are either on duty not driving/on duty driving.(period)
     
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    supersnackbar

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    I would guess that either you go out to the truck and log line 4 for all your non-driving hours, or whomever is responsible for log info in the office can correct your hours to include your other work time prior to you driving. Or, use paper until the government mandate kicks in.
     
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  7. Dec 27, 2015 #5
    TampaTony

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    You will have a log in station at your office or shop. You log in when you get to the shop and log out when you go home, that way your hours are current when log into truck.
     
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  8. Dec 27, 2015 #6
    Mudguppy

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    ^^^This^^^^

    There is an exemption in the new mandate for "local" drivers, as well as drivers that only drive a minimal amount of hours, such as your case. I read it somewhere, but don't feel like digging it up now. I'm sure a cursory search should find it....
     
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  9. Dec 27, 2015 #7
    Bdog

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    The exemption as I read states that if you are required to log less than 8 days per month then you don't need to elog. There are a lot of what ifs to that though in my eyes. Is that criteria looked at each month or once you drive over 8 in a month you should log all year? Most months I do not log more than 8 days. I maybe have had to log more than 8 days in a month 2-3 times in the last five years.

    Regarding logging in at the shop or office most the time I am working in different places. We use the truck to haul our equipment to our jobsite and then we stay there in motels for a week or two and then drive to the next location.
     
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  10. Dec 27, 2015 #8
    TampaTony

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    They have cell phone apps to log in, don't worry you will be covered. You won't need to go back a bunch of days to log hours for the once in awhile drive. I have lots of experience with elogs from the oil field service companies I worked for. It's not a big deal if your not driving for a living.
     
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  11. Dec 30, 2015 #9
    Mark Kling

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