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Originally Posted by Mad Dog
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Originally Posted by susansmith
That's how I log too, sonic. I use a lower mph in my calculations, but bacsically... I figure how long it *should* have taken me to get there in a perfect world, and that's what I log.
I don't do it to go over 11 hours in a day, but to just not burn up my 70.
While I'm driving, I'm on line 3... but when I stop, it may turn out that my log may have gotten there a bit before I did.
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I would not want to explain to DOT how my log is ahead of where I am nor would I want to explain why my log hasn't caught up with me.
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You're not following me. When I'm driving, I'm on line 3. No one can "see" my log is ahead of me or behind me.
When I'm at a truck stop or terminal and shut down for my break, I do my mph calculation, and realize I *could* have gotten there an hour earlier if things hadn't gotten fubar'd (weather, traffic or whatever), I log that I got there an hour earlier.
There's no way to get caught unless a DOT office is actually watching you complete your log after watching you park.
This is *not* to extend my 11 or 14 hours, but to not burn up my 70.
I don't do the mph calculation the way the other d00d said. My company *requires* us to log at 5 mph lower than the speed limit up to a maximum of 62. So... if I went through a state with a speed limit of IA, IL, IN and OH (assuming turnpike in OH)... that's speed limits of 70, 55, 65 and 65... or the average of 62, 50, 60 and 60, which is 58.
When driving conditions are good, I can end up *ahead* of my log cause my company wants me to log below the speed limit. In those cases, I take an extra half hour or more at a rest area to let my log catch up with me.
Not burning up my 70 is more important than the 11 or 14 to me. I don't particularly *want* to drive more than 11 hours or extend my day beyond 14. If I split sleeper berth, it's because of an inconvenient shipping time... like maybe I drive to the consignee in 11 hours within a 14-hour day, go to sleep for 4 hours, wake up and unload, then finish up my break.
But on my log, I always spend 15 minutes on line 4 at a shipper or consignee, taking the rest as off-duty or sleeper time. This is generally *true* as well as I'm watching an episode of the Simpsons or napping if being loaded or unloaded.