Question About Logbook Off-Duty Time - Self Published Author
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I doubt that would beon duty. Essentially I think it would be looked at as writing in your free time. I plan on spending a lot of time welriting on the road as well. With the isolation I can finally make myself start the screenplays I've been thinking about for a few years and add to my memoirs.
That's definitely not on duty. If your doing your writing at a Denny's in Flying J then log it as off duty. However, if you're on the bed writing then its sleeper berth. I use on duty for pretrips, post trips, arrival at customers, fueling, and filling fluids (which kinda combines with pretrips). If you log yourself on duty for that then you would be shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to maximizing your hours for driving.
Sleeper Berth:
The portion of the tractor behind the seats which acts as the "living space" for the driver. It generally contains a bed (or bunk beds), cabinets, lights, temperature control knobs, and 12 volt plugs for power.
Daniel is right about that. Sometimes you've got to be real careful about on duty time. By keeping yourself off that line during idle time you can help protect your 70 hour clock. It doesn't make any difference for your 14 hour clock, but it sure can help you later on if you're counting on some re-cap hours.
If you log yourself on duty for that then you would be shooting yourself in the foot when it comes to maximizing your hours for driving.
That is why I was worried. But I'm glad my assumption was correct.
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I've been going through the logbook sections of the CDL training program, and it states that off duty time is : If you are not doing any work (paid or unpaid) for a motor carrier, and you are not doing any paid work for anyone else, you may record the time as off duty time.
So I am a self-published author ... I don't get paid to write, but eventually when I publish my books I get paid, so would I have to log any writing time as On Duty? I'm kind of assuming the answer is no, but I just wanted to get some feedback.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Logbook:
A written or electronic record of a driver's duty status which must be maintained at all times. The driver records the amount of time spent driving, on-duty not driving, in the sleeper berth, or off duty. The enforcement of the Hours Of Service Rules (HOS) are based upon the entries put in a driver's logbook.