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I sent an email to Frank and asked if I could post his reply and he said yes:

Legally you can not take the movies and DVD's and any other entertainment deduction, but the only time that it will be disallowed would be when you are audited. and it is basically a minor deduction. you can only take 50% of the actual cost and it has to be listed that way in PART V of Sch C.
Showers and laundry are deductible. the laundry for it to be deductible you must put on a piece of paper

date, location(truckStop), City, State and amount spent for washers and dryers due to you will not get a receipt for it

Showers, if you fill your tanks with 50 gals or more you would normally get a 1/2 or full shower depending on truck stop. If you stop at another where you do not fuel, and pay for a shower it is deductible.

FRank

I also received this from Frank:

The per Diem is a reimbursement for FOOD only and pertain to you for every day that you are on the road, this per diem is based on 1/4 days, midnight to 6AM 6AM to Noon, Noon to 6PM and 6 PM to midnight.

EXAMPLE: It Monday, You are home, you call in to put yourself back in service, they call you at 3 PM that they have a load for you to pick up. That means that you start your Per Diem at about 3:30 PM by leaving your home. Once you leave, you do not return home for 3 weeks. So lets say you come home at 11AM Friday 21 days later

The Per Diem would break down this way
For Monday the day you leave. you will receive 3/4 of 1 day, then 19 full days and 1/2 day on the Friday
you return. So your total for this period is 20 1/4 days for allowable per diem deduction.

That is the way the per diem is figured, Plus if you go into Canada, it the time you leave Customs going in, and the time you leave Customs coming out. those days are figured separately

Your Per Deim is for the days in the US $52.00 and In Canada $58.00 per day

This is subject to 75% of the total as the actual deduction


Frank