Messed up logs

If you make a mistake the best thing to do is void out the mistake log and fill out a better log sheet (the voided one keep in the log book, do NOT hand it into logs, unless your log sheets are #'d England's are (country))

YOu are fine, mistakes HaPpEn

 

Logs are not required to be bound in a book. The log format can be printed as part of another company form. My first employer printed their own log pages. In that case, each page was loose and I could easily throw out a smudged log and start over. Now, I carry a double-sided razor blade for cutting the "driver's" copy out of the book when I want to start over.

Are Radius Driver Log formats still available? These are not graph logs, but seven daily columns on a weekly page. Drivers enter time numerically rather than as a line on a graph. When I was a union "Transfer Driver" for a canned goods labeling plant, I used the weekly log.

 

a. You have thirteen days to submit a log page to the carrier. This allows plenty of time for using a "re-do".

b. You must have, in your possession, the copies of the previous seven days of logs, plus the day you are working on. If you are asked to present your logs this is all you have to submit to the diesel cop.

I use loose leaf to avoid the potential risk of a diesel cop using the missing pages in a bound log as evidence to allow a more thorough inspection of me and my "other supporting documents".

I keep my loose leaf log pages (copies of seven days previous and the one page I'm working) in a nice, neat 1/2" binder complete with a label sheet slid inside the clear plastic front cover. It looks real professional and first impressions are the ones that count. If the diesel cop perceives a driver as one who has his stuff together (true or not), things usually go a bit easier during the inspection process.

 

Good job! I'm LLL'ing myself these days. I don't go quite as far as you do, but my pages are neatly arranged on their own clipboard. The best part is, we use TransFlo, so I don't have to putz around with carbon paper and make a second copy.

It used to be an article of faith that DOT hated LLL, and would be all up in your face about it. I'm sure there are a few bears out there who get their suspicions raised when they see a LLL, but I've never met one myself. It's a lot easier and neater than trying to write on a floppy logbook perched on the wheel, and easier to redo a page when your pen slips or something.

 

Joe: You can take the staples out of the log book and use a clip board or put whole punches in them (put it where the perferated part is so it does not interfere with the actual log sheet), this is called loose leaf logs but using your company's log sheets as required by them.

It sounds like your company uses the scanning software and this is fine.

If you make a mistake scribble out (neatly) the mistake and draw the line to the correct place it should be. If it is a horrible day void out the log sheet and throw it away , this way if DOT finds it they know you was voiding it out.

These log sheets "usually" are not in number order. The bar code is only for scanning software purpose and that's it. However some drivers told me that the "last company" said they was number ordered, not sure how true that is as I only heard a driver from "England" being the country must have theirs in a certain order .

However the only time you should use another log book is if you run out of the company one and can't get to the terminal to get a new log book. You make their life miserable at this time but we deal with it (some won't). I won't if it is every month. IT makes more work for us

The point is the company "should" understand you make mistakes & the company should not have the log sheets in a specific order & you can make their log book into loose leaf which serves the same purpose you want.

If you are changing all the time to 100 air and over 100 air the easiest way to keep track of you (for log department) is to have you fill out a log sheet every day. It's just easiest to avoid mistakes on both parties.

Now get with your company some are more relaxed, but I think I am more relaxed than most

 

Um maybe they did a JJ Keller upgrade and it ended up being a JJ Keller down degrade and they haven't been able to send letters out because of them . Hmm sound's like me any how . IT's hard to say why you have not recieved a letter, but do call them and ask them how you are doing on logs this year