For drivers who use an EOBR....

[lugnut1]

For drivers who use an EOBR, what is your company’s safety policy/method for keeping track of your HOS when your EORB unit breaks down? And, have you received a written copy of that policy?

 

[Monty]

There could only be one other "method", log books ..... as prescribed by FMCSA.

 

[lugnut1]

For drivers who use an EOBR, what is your company’s safety policy/method for keeping track of your HOS when your EORB unit breaks down? And, have you received a written copy of that policy?

Let me rephrase the question. Do you have and use an EOBR. If yes, has your company supplied you with a written policy detailing what you are to do if your EROB unit breaks down?

Could you briefly explain your company policy should the EROB malfunction?

 

[highway star]

The only other option than what Nota posted would be to go out of service. Going back to old fashioned logging really is the only alternative.

 

[greg334]

i'm pretty sure that the regulations says what a driver has to do and how they are responsible for their logs. A company can have a policy but it is meaningless because they can't tell a driver to do something outside the regulation and have to accept the paper log as an official document.

Something that was discussed a bit ago was the faxing of logs under the EOBR rules, they ain't allowed.

 

[Monty]

Watch ..... someone will confuse SCANNING logs, (which is allowed), with FAXING them, (which is not allowed).

 

[greg334]

Nope not at all, scanning a log sheet is the same as faxing and can be an issue with a state DOT officer who wants to be an a**.

No matter who says what, the FMCSA has said the signature on the log has to be manually applied and not in any other form - this is from the FMCSA directly. The problem is FMCSA has not addressed the origin of the signature issue (this is again from them) and this is one reason why cut and past signatures are not allow for computerized logs - you have to have a sign copy in your records as a carrier, not a facsimile of that copy. Carbon copies are allowed because they are signed like the originals.

EOBRs step around the issue by having an established process for handling the data (that integrity word pops up a few times) and an assumption that the driver who he is which in reality can be a problem.