Know what to look for in trucking cases.Commercial drivers and motor carriers are required to keep many documents that may help you determine whether there has been an hours-of-service violation. Drivers' logbooks contain the date, total miles driven that day, truck or tractor tractor, in agriculture, vehicle used to pull such equipment as plows, cultivators, and mowers; to power stationary devices such as saws and winches; and to push snowplows and earth-moving implements. and trailer number, name of carrier, carrier's main office address, driver's signature/certification, 24-hour period starting time Noun 1. starting time - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, start, kickoff, beginning, first , remarks, name of any additional driver, shipping document number, and the driver's duty status (off duty; sleeper Sleeper Stock in which there is little investor interest but that has significant potential to gain in price once its attractions are recognized. Antithesis of high flyer. berth; driving; or on duty, not driving). Electronic on-board On board usually means to be traveling on some vehicle. For example, Baby On Board. Compare with overboard. Metaphorically, the term on-board is often used to refer to some piece of technology that is integrated in a moving vehicle, for example: Qualcomm/Comdata electronic log systems usually are equipped with global positioning system Global Positioning System: see navigation satellite. Global Positioning System (GPS) Precise satellite-based navigation and location system originally developed for U.S. military use. , or GPS, technology, showing where the truck has been. They may contain e-mail communications between the driver and the trucking company. Accident reports, which motor carriers must keep for at least a year, can reveal a "bad" driver or negligent negligent adj., adv. careless in not fulfilling responsibility. (See: negligence) carrier, as well as where the driver was at the time of the crash. Bills of lading show when and where the truck's load was picked up and dropped off. Gas and meal receipts can reveal that the driver was not sleeping during his or her rest period or that the driver covered too much ground between different locations and times on the receipts to stay within regulations. Cell phone records show when and where the driver was at the time of a call, depending on the location of the cell tower. Margaret Moses Branch Albuquerque |
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