Whereas, the concept of off-duty time is the free time that truck drivers get to pursue their own activities.
More precisely off-duty time is the time when truck drivers get the chance to recharge their batteries, to perform the activities that make them happy and all that is with only one purpose, which is to maintain their safety on a high level. After all, safety is what matters the most.
First and foremost, off-duty means absolutely no work at all. When a truck driver takes off-duty time, should not perform any work in the capacity. Also, it is prohibited for truck drivers during their off-duty time to perform any compensated work for a company that is not a trucking company.
So, the duties that truck drivers have to perform on a daily basis, such as is fueling should not be done during the off-duty time of the truck driver, instead, those duties should be recorded in on-duty time.
5. What Is A Driver’s Daily Log?
Driver’s daily logs are the evidential material that includes the overall daily activity of the truck driver. Nowadays we can still see a lot of truck drivers that are using paper logs instead of ELD’s. Somehow, most of them have got used to filling their logs in that manner.
