Log book ????'s

pandora2112 · Jul 23, 2013

Everything I've read says you must fill out your own logbook but I've received conflicting stories from other people. Can your co-driver fill out your log or must you fill it out?

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Turtle · Jul 23, 2013

Driver's record of duty status. - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

(f) The driver's activities shall be recorded in accordance with the following provisions:
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2) Entries made by driver only. All entries relating to driver's duty status must be legible and in the driver's own handwriting.

pandora2112 · Jul 23, 2013

That's what I read!

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pandora2112 · Jul 23, 2013

I'm filling out my own logs for the record but hearing stories of teams filling out each others logs and making sure what I read was current.

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OntarioVanMan · Jul 23, 2013

Now the DOT guy is a forensic handwriting expert

fatboy1 · Jul 23, 2013

My co driver won't even sign my name to check in at a shipper. Lol

OntarioVanMan · Jul 23, 2013

I mean it's drawing lines in the book for crying out loud what's there to forge, Besides a signature?

Tomtom · Jul 23, 2013

Spend more than a second thinking about it and you could come up with several reasons why they have this law.

Now, I know for some the thinking part could pull something but the rest of you can figure this out.

Monty · Jul 23, 2013

Think about this then, while still trucking, I used DDL (Drivers Daily Log), it was computer based and printed my log, for me to sign.

So handwriting is not the critical part I would think. The signature I can see, as all of mine required a signature after printing. But even then, the computer could do it, if you uploaded a copy.

tenntrucker · Jul 23, 2013

Sounds like you have too much time on your hands to be worrying about another drivers log....

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Monty · Jul 24, 2013

tenntrucker, in my case, I do! (Have too much time on my hands)

This retirement allows me time to stick my nose everywhere!

Moot · Jul 24, 2013

Keep in mind that the ICC invented log books in 1938.

tenntrucker · Jul 24, 2013

Notanewbie said:
tenntrucker, in my case, I do! (Have too much time on my hands)

This retirement allows me time to stick my nose everywhere!

My comment wasn't aimed at you, guess you stepped in the line of fire.....

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pandora2112 · Jul 24, 2013

tenntrucker said:
Sounds like you have too much time on your hands to be worrying about another drivers log....

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Hey for some of us there's a reason...if you're a fleet owner or involved in safety & compliance there are good reasons to ask this question.

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Turtle · Jul 24, 2013

Notanewbie said:
Think about this then, while still trucking, I used DDL (Drivers Daily Log), it was computer based and printed my log, for me to sign.

So handwriting is not the critical part I would think. The signature I can see, as all of mine required a signature after printing. But even then, the computer could do it, if you uploaded a copy.

If you read the Regs, which hardly anyone does, apparently, the logs can be electronic, computer generated (such as DDL), or hand printed. If they hare hand printed, meaning anything written on the log form by a driver, it must be done by that driver and not by someone else. But yeah, it's the signature that's the important thing.

spongebox1 · Jul 24, 2013

tenntrucker said:
My comment wasn't aimed at you, guess you stepped in the line of fire.....

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Truth be told she was talking about my log and since she is my co-driver I guess she can spend all the time she wants looking at my logs and asking questions about the compliance of our paperwork.... is that ok with you Tenn or do you need a bit more clarification here?

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Turtle · Jul 24, 2013

spongebox1 said:
Truth be told she was talking about my log and since she is my co-driver I guess she can spend all the time she wants looking at my logs and asking questions about the compliance of our paperwork.... is that ok with you Tenn or do you need a bit more clarification here?

Based on that reply, I'd say it's YOU who has entirely too much time on your hands. Tenntrucker's comment was based on the available information at the time, which was that of "hearing stories of teams filling out each others logs." Post #14 further clarified it in the context of being a fleet owner of involved with Safety & Compliance. Now, you come along and inform us that neither of those contexts were the truth, that the truth was intentionally obfuscated, twice, and then get all pіssy at tenntrucker for commenting in the incorrect context.

Unbelievable.