Rookie Question
 

Hi all! started first real job & I can't remember,any reg state whether you
must use pen or pencil for logbook?

I can see DOT wanting pen & me wanting pencil.
Thanks to whomever has answer to my silly question,that I
should know the answer to already.

Forget the DOT. Do whatever you want.
Use crayons! :wink:

I used a purple pen already for a month and had no problems. Even had a DOT level one that month and the cop laughed. He thought it was funny. :D

Regardless of what the regs may or may not say, why would anyone want to use a pencil on a legal document, which your log book is.

That would be like buying something, paying with a check and writing it out in pencil and then wonder why your $50 purchase shows up as a $5000 one.

I don't really see how it matters. If you are audited, they will want to see YOUR logbooks for the previous six months. If they are "carbon duplicates" as most are, the CARBON copy will be what they go by, to some extent.

I could be wrong about this, but I ALWAYS consider my "used" logbooks, and their "carbon copies" as the eveidence FOR or AGAINST me.

In this case, it matters not whether you use pen or pencil! You cannot "change" a carbon very easily. Why do you think they HAVE a "second" copy that STAYS in your logbook?

Most logsheets must be "hand entered" anyways, because of mistakes and scratchouts! If you don't turn in a "clean" logsheet, your DM (or whatever) must enter the information they get. YOUR logbook contains the "carbon truth!"