How Much Is It On You To Get Logging Hours Right?

I just started school and one of the first major topics they covered was logging your hours. Talking about how much you can work etc. But he made it very big deal you get fined all the time if your off by just a bit on this stuff. So when you actually are on a real job are you still very much responsible for this or is it more steamlined and your fleet managers are something kind of can figure it out for you? Or maybe a program or something keeps up with it for you....

Also, holy this school is 3 weeks long and they move a little too fast for me and only 30mins break jeeeez... >.>

Starting to think a lot of this stuff would make much more sense if I could actually do the job rather than stuff in a classroom

Oh, and this "Monthly Summary Sheet" thing with the 3 columns is hugely confusing and completely went over my head. Didn't help I got soo little sleep for first day of class tho....

Sheet with the "A" "B" "C" and you figure some numbers or something.

Miqote, did you use our High Road Training Program before you went to school? The section in there on logs is excellent. I think I went through that section about four times, and I swear that was like a revelation to me on how to succeed at this stuff.

Understanding the rules and how they affect your ability to make the most money at this is critical to your success at this career. It comes easier as you get some experience actually working with your logs, but having a basic understanding of how it all works is important as you get started.

Miqote, our High Road Training Program has a section we built for learning the logbook rules. Those laws can be somewhat confusing so our program will walk you through it. Have a look at it.

It will certainly make more sense to you once you're applying it to real life scenarios. In fact, one of the best ways to learn the rules better is to practice them by creating fictitious trips and logging them as you go.

I just started school and one of the first major topics they covered was logging your hours. Talking about how much you can work etc. But he made it very big deal you get fined all the time if your off by just a bit on this stuff. So when you actually are on a real job are you still very much responsible for this or is it more steamlined and your fleet managers are something kind of can figure it out for you? Or maybe a program or something keeps up with it for you....

Also, holy this school is 3 weeks long and they move a little too fast for me and only 30mins break jeeeez... >.>

Yeah this is a big deal and yes you are responsible for your logbooks. Qualcomm made it easy to look at how much drive time was remaining and that if you forgot to log certain actions would do so automatically for you such as if you turned off the truck and got out it would automatically put you on duty not driving and if you go above 5 mph it would put you driving.

Miqote, I used to teach math up to Algebra in school. While I was studying the CDL stuff, the HOS rules were almost crazy. But, you know, when I started actually "living" with the rules it turned out not so bad.

And BTW, on the road, after your 30 minute break you'll want to get going again. (You could take longer, but driving/ road miles is how you get paid.)

To answer your question- it's 100% on the driver to log ( and keep track of) his hours. You might say log and keep track are the same. They are…sort of.

You could find yourself working locally with the 100 air mike radius exemption. In that case you don't have to fill out a daily log (unless you work 12 or more hours that day) but you still have to keep track of your hours so you don't go over 60 hours in 7 days.

Take plenty of time to learn all the HOS rules. It's one of the most important parts of this career. As important as shifting and backing

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