Log Book Regulations

Does anyone know what the rules are on starting a new log book each month?
you carry over your hours onto the first page of the new month. you do your log as normal. you keep the old log book for 8 days, then either save it at home, for future reference as to how many miles you drove, and as proof of employment. i think as of right now, i have the past 3 years of log books in a shoe box. i will toss them away when i either retire officially, or am deemed disabled, due to my injury.

i also save my DVIR books as proof of things i had written up.
 
if you don't mind my saying, you have been a member here since Oct of 2010......

you been trucking that long...??

or, why ask this now, if you have been here this long, as it would seem to me, this question would have been asked ages ago.
 
No ::shit:: sherlock. Need to prove to my new employer that all their other drivers have been doing it wrong all this time. Couldn't find anything quickly in the Federal regulations, so thought the trucking board members could answer the question. Didn't think I'd get some grief about it.
 
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No Sh*t sherlock. Need to prove to my new employer that all their other drivers have been doing it wrong all this time. Couldn't find anything quickly in the Federal regulations, so thought the trucking board members could answer the question. Didn't think I'd get some grief about it.
hey bud, i asked you honest questions and made an honest statement.

please refrain from pushing the wrong buttons.

further, if your boss has been doing it wrong all this time, what makes you think he's gonna believe a message board..??

what, cuz it's on the internet, it has to be true..???
 
The reason you couldn't find any rule about starting a new book each month is because there isn't one. The requirements only state you need to be current to duty change and keep past seven days. It makes no difference if you start a new book on the 13th of the month, or the 8th. You could lump your consecutive days off onto one page, then continue on till you run the book out then start a new one. The dates on the recap page are only there for your convenance.

If you really want to screw with the small brained, pin-headed boss go by a stack of loose leaf logs and ask how you start a new "book" each month.
 
The reason you couldn't find any rule about starting a new book each month is because there isn't one. The requirements only state you need to be current to duty change and keep past seven days. It makes no difference if you start a new book on the 13th of the month, or the 8th. You could lump your consecutive days off onto one page, then continue on till you run the book out then start a new one. The dates on the recap page are only there for your convenance.

If you really want to screw with the small brained, pin-headed boss go by a stack of loose leaf logs and ask how you start a new "book" each month.

There's 31 pages in a logbook for a reason. Whether you only use 1 or all 31 pages, you grab a new logbook at the beginning of the next month.
 
I don't recall ever seeing a requirement that a log book be organized a month at at time. My early log books were bound on the left side, had blanks for all of the required information and the vehicle inspection report on the back. Yes, it was called a vehicle inspection report, not a vehicle condition report. I believe that the monthly log book is provided by the company to make it easier to stay organized.
 
GREETINGS 857dead,

What's a "new log book"??
I've been using loose leaf so long, I only see log "books" at truckee stops.

It'll all be moot by Oct. 1, 2017 when the E.L.D. mandate is to (supposedly) become LAW
, so we'll see.

CHEERS!! :17142:
 
The only requirement is you must have the day you are on and the previous 7 days. The fact that there are 31 days in a log book is irrelevant.
 
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