Need info on how to properly log on a short haul exemption log book.


nothing gives instructions on how to fill out the log book.



Namely for the fact that you aren't required to keep one for short distance.

I would highly recommend you go in and actually read what both myself and @tommyh linked you to. As well as read the guidance. Your answers are there. Not sure how much more you want to be given.
Well I guess I’ll just have to stick with what my boss tells me to do but if we’re not required to keep a short haul log book then why does JJkeller even make one?....lol. But yeah, I’ll re read that but like I said, I more/less looking for official instruction on how to properly fill that log book out that we supoosedly don’t need. And besides that, we just got audited and we had to show them those log sheets so tell me again that they ain’t required.
 
Well I guess I’ll just have to stick with what my boss tells me to do but if we’re not required to keep a short haul log book then why does JJkeller even make one?....lol. But yeah, I’ll re read that but like I said, I more/less looking for official instruction on how to properly fill that log book out that we supoosedly don’t need. And besides that, we just got audited and we had to show them those log sheets so tell me again that they ain’t required.
Well, what ya didnt mention til bout mid-thread was your paid percentage. I assumed you was hourly. That’s probably why somebody might think ya need em

Im hourly so I dont. We got time card punches to use for that
 
Well I guess I’ll just have to stick with what my boss tells me to do but if we’re not required to keep a short haul log book then why does JJkeller even make one?....lol. But yeah, I’ll re read that but like I said, I more/less looking for official instruction on how to properly fill that log book out that we supoosedly don’t need. And besides that, we just got audited and we had to show them those log sheets so tell me again that they ain’t required.


They’ll also sell you for $255 a complete compliance manual that you can download and print from fmcsa for free.


It’s called marketing. They’ve convinced people you need it to be in compliance.
 
Well, what ya didnt mention til bout mid-thread was your paid percentage. I assumed you was hourly. That’s probably why somebody might think ya need em

Im hourly so I dont. We got time card punches to use for that
It’s not that I did it on purpose, I just thought it wasn’t necessary to disclose but why would that matter? But how do you go without filling out a log book?
 
They’ll also sell you for $255 a complete compliance manual that you can download and print from fmcsa for free.


It’s called marketing. They’ve convinced people you need it to be in compliance.
Goin back to that screenshot you posted from that escr.gov or whatever it was website; it sounds down below where I circled it, that the employer of the driver must retain time records for six months... that log book is our record. And yeah, the other guy says he’s paid by the hour but where in the book does it say a card you punch in a time clock is a suitable record of time?
 

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Goin back to that screenshot you posted from that escr.gov or whatever it was website; it sounds down below where I circled it, that the employer of the driver must retain time records for six months... that log book is our record. And yeah, the other guy says he’s paid by the hour but where in the book does it say a card you punch in a time clock is a suitable record of time?
Right there at the bottom. Why wouldn’t it be if shows ya workin less than the allowed hours?
 
correct me if I am wrong fellows,but I do not need to keep a log of hours on a 100 mile radius for example,but the "boss" does back in the office
 
correct me if I am wrong fellows,but I do not need to keep a log of hours on a 100 mile radius for example,but the "boss" does back in the office
Well, I just got off the phone with a representative from the FMCSA and she pretty much verified that you need to have a log of your hours in your vehicle so if you ever get pulled over, you have to have your last seven or eight days worth of logbooks to show that officer, just the same as you do if you were an over the road driver.

Now whether or not if you do punch in and out on a time clock counts as your record of logs, that I don’t know because I don’t get paid by the hour so I didn’t ask her that but that’s what I was told. These logbooks are required even for short haul drivers and if anybody has ever gotten pulled over and told the cop they didn’t have these logbooks, I’d sure like to know what the end result of what that was.

Come to think of it, as a matter of fact, I could’ve probably got myself into quite a bit of trouble a couple years ago because on a day when I got pulled over for a random inspection, guess what; mr Dot bear asks to see my logs... he let me off with a verbal warning on it but, if he would’ve wanted to, he could’ve got me for not having the last seven days of my logbooks because what had happened, those logbooks that I’ve been filling out for the past seven years with this employer, in them, there’s about 17 pages of weekly log pages in these books. I guess I’ve just gotten lucky up to that point by never ever being asked to see my logs because what I would always do when i filled one of those books- like on a Friday every every three months, I would take that empty log book home with me and I put it in my file box. Well this day when I got pulled over for a random inspection, it was on a Wednesday and I had just started a brand new logbook which meant that the only record of my seven days I had was that day, Tuesday and Monday... He asked, “where is the rest of your seven days?” I told him what I did and I guess he just felt like being nice that day because he left it alone. I guessing it wasn’t really that important to him, probably because he was more concerned about writing me a ticket for not using my turn signal rather than deal with that because maybe it was because I was on my short haul logs and not on a loose leaf but either way, he still asked to see my logbook. And who knows, maybe the reason he really wasn’t concerned about my full seven days was because I had a 34 hour reset from the whole weekend off between the week that I was on and the week before.
 
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At all the DOT inspections I’ve had over the last several years one of the things the officers always asked was whether or not I punch a clock.
 
At all the DOT inspections I’ve had over the last several years one of the things the officers always asked was whether or not I punch a clock.
Never been asked that. I think there may have only been one other time I’ve been asked to see my logs but the cop just glanced over them.
 
another thing you can do is to download a app on your phone
I have a app,Keep Trucking and it has a short haul setup where you can use it instead of paper.You can go back and adjust your time etc.It tells you how much time you have left to drive too
no costs and no eld nessacery
I been using it all week in case I need it
since I have several months of short haul to do
 
another thing you can do is to download a app on your phone
I have a app,Keep Trucking and it has a short haul setup where you can use it instead of paper.You can go back and adjust your time etc.It tells you how much time you have left to drive too
no costs and no eld nessacery
I been using it all week in case I need it
since I have several months of short haul to do
I downloaded that app and am trying it out but as far as it being an official record of hours of service, I question that because there’s 100% driver control over it. But then again, short-haul drivers aren’t required to log on a bona fide, uncheatable ELD so of our paper log is all we got them who’s to say this wouldn’t be able to pass as well?

But hey, at least there’s one thing about that app, tho; it most certainly does show that how my boss said he found how we’re supposed to be logging these logs, he’s right, and that’s all I was after.
 
One other thing is air miles are different from land miles. If I recall 150 air miles is about 172 land miles. Also is a radius on the map or as the crow flies so going by your odometer is not an accurate.
 
One other thing is air miles are different from land miles. If I recall 150 air miles is about 172 land miles. Also is a radius on the map or as the crow flies so going by your odometer is not an accurate.
The 150 air miles is a 150 miles straight as the crow flies in any direction. Land miles don’t have a thing to do with it because any road could yield any mileage from the center of your radius to that outer line.
 
One other thing is air miles are different from land miles. If I recall 150 air miles is about 172 land miles. Also is a radius on the map or as the crow flies so going by your odometer is not an accurate.
You just gave the conversion for nautical miles to statute miles.

150 nautical miles is 172 statute miles.

For this purpose, statute miles are used.
Air miles means in a perfectly straight line. Roads can twist and wind around all over the place.
 
@Duck
Hours of Service Exceptions
§395.1 Scope of the rules in this part.

Guidance Q&A​

Question 12: How many statute miles are equivalent to 100-air-miles?
Guidance: The term “air mile” is internationally defined as a “nautical mile” which is equivalent to 6,076 feet or 1,852 meters. Thus, the 100 air miles are equivalent to 115.08 statute miles or 185.2 kilometers.
 
@Duck
Hours of Service Exceptions
§395.1 Scope of the rules in this part.

Guidance Q&A​

Question 12: How many statute miles are equivalent to 100-air-miles?
Guidance: The term “air mile” is internationally defined as a “nautical mile” which is equivalent to 6,076 feet or 1,852 meters. Thus, the 100 air miles are equivalent to 115.08 statute miles or 185.2 kilometers.
That's odd that they'd use a unit of measurent only used by boats and aircraft for something like that.

Still, it's a straight line and doesn't compare to road miles.
 

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