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You are apparently missing the whole point. On the rare occasion she drives, of course she’s logging it. But there are many advantages (mostly it comes down to convenience for her) to her not having to maintain a log if she goes out with me three weeks and I never run hard enough that she’d need to drive. There's also advantages for me if I can simply stay off duty while she's driving and not worry about hiding out in the sleeper, for example. If I’m simply a passenger for the day, it’s none of the DOT’s business what I’m doing at any given moment.Originally Posted by rkeck
Maybe I'm missing something, but if she gets stopped or God forbid gets in an accident while she's driving, isn't the driver of that particular commercial vehicle going to have to produce a log book in addition the license, insurance, medical card, etc ... sounds like a "driver" to me, co-driver, companion, passenger, whatever you want to call her, she would have to produce documents that ANY driver would have to produce. I honestly don't see what the big deal is when you can use one log page to document any number of days off ... takes maybe 2 minutes to get current prior to driving while you reset.
According to the FMSCA regs, logs must be kept current to the last change of duty. Are you insinuating that we should violate those regs? Perish the thought! I’m offended. I’d rather find a way to legally avoid regulatory stupidity instead of subject myself to it. According to FMCA guidance, “a co-driver“ (of course we don’t really know what one of those is) riding in the passenger seat next to the driver must be logged “On-duty (not driving).” If my wife were to be my co-driver the whole time she’s in the truck and never drive, she’d have to stay in the sleeper the entire time the truck is moving. That gets old after a week or two on the road.