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Log Book - Truckers and Hours of Service

Each truck driver recognizes what a log book is. It's a framework style diagram they use to monitor the hours spent driving, working, on holiday and in the sleeper birth. It is affectionately alluded to as the comic book, interesting pages, or cheat sheet. The standards are confounding. They changed close to the finish of 2005 and the forces that be in Washington (none of whom, I'm certain have ever determined a 18-wheeler) haven't chose if these progressions are the last draft. We used to have the option to drive 10 hours before requiring a 8 hour break. Presently we can drive 11 hours (not straight, obviously) however should enjoy a 10 hour reprieve. To be very legitimate, I don't have the foggiest idea about every one of the subtleties of the new standards, yet I'm certain in case I'm at any point engaged with a trucking mishap, the legal counselors will fill me in. A while ago when the first standards were first made law, trucking was not at all like