Another Log Book Question?????

[jo57]

If this question has been posted and answered before, I apologize for not looking it up. That being said:

What does one do with their old log books? Should they be kept over the 7 day requirement, kind of like tax records? Or on the 8th day should they be tossed. Thanks.

[robsjob7]

I keep mine for awhile as the companies have the possibility of loosing old ones so I keep mine to go back and get another copy to send into them

[RedRollingRoadblock]

If you claim per diem on your taxes keep them like any other tax backup document. If you don't, toss them after you are sure you don't need to document any thing else for the company. Some companies have a habit of "loosing" anything they don't want to pay you for.

Ed, the wooden shoes have dry rot.

[medic92]

I still have my logbook from my first day on the road with a trainer.

You just never know when something's going to come up. When I was a paramedic, I got subpoenaed for a lawsuit against GM from a call I was on almost four years before. I couldn't remember a thing about the wreck, so the only record I had was the run report I filled out.

If someone names me in a suit three or four years from now, I'll be able to dig out my dusty old logs and show where (my logbook says) I was at that point in time.

[DETrob]

Originally Posted by jo57

If this question has been posted and answered before, I apologize for not looking it up. That being said:

What does one do with their old log books? Should they be kept over the 7 day requirement, kind of like tax records? Or on the 8th day should they be tossed. Thanks.

You need to keep it with you in the truck for 7 days after you finish it for that month. Then you need to keep it at home in your records for 1 year for tax purposes, like collecting your $54 a day from the government, UNLESS YOU GET A PER DIEM FROM YOUR CARRIER. YOU WILL NOT BE ENTITLED FOR THE $54 a day, you were paid a per diem for that, then you can toss your log books out. I keep my log book so I can prove to the Government how many days out I had and helps my TAX preparer figure out those numbers correctly.

[Krzy18whlr]

I'm a pack rat so I have every log I've ever done in boxes in the garage along with a bunch of other useless junk. A thousand years from now some historian will marvel at how much an ancient man could accomplish in fifteen minute intervals.