Karen wrote:

>
> Truckers keep a log that Highway Patrol and Weigh Station can audit at
> anytime. They are not supposed to drive x amount of time without x
> amount of hours. Toll time stamps, weigh station time stamps, etc.,
> validate their time frame claim.

And most of them start with "Once upon a time " :-) They have set amounts
of time that they enter for various things, like 15 minutes for their pre
trip. They don't count the on duty time when they stop for fuel. There are a
lot of places they can go without paying any tolls, and on road enforcement
staff have no way of verifying that they stopped for fuel if they don't show
the receipts.

I once had a driver who was hauling pre fab concrete to a building site in
NYC. He drive down , about 10-12 hours from here, went to the sleeper berth
for 8 hours and then drove back. Among his receipts half dozen toll tickets
for the bridges around NYC and most of them were issued during the time that
he indicated he was in the sleeper berth sleeping. When he came to court to
fight the charge he had an interesting story about how he delivered to a
union job site and he had to climb into the sleeper berth while a union
driver drove his truck around the city to make the delivery.

The JP was in a bind, saying that it was the driver's word against mine (my
evidence) but even though she thought he was lying, she had to take his word
for it.