food for a car trip 2590

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I worked in commercial vehicle enforcement and caught a few guys who had been driving for more than 30 hours straight. One guy had left Florida on Thursday morning and driven to the border , stopping only for fuel and food. I got him just after he crossed the border at 6 pm Friday evening, putting a serious damper on his plans to make it to his birthday party at home, another two hours down the road.

One guy got pulled in for an inspection because we were grabbing time markers on his company because our auditors were going into their terminal the next week for a facility audit. According to his log he had been driving all the say from somewhere in the south. I got him at 6:30 pm on this side of the border and his last log book entry showed him going "of duty" it a place in southern WV, about a 12 hour drive from here.

I charged him, gave him the ticket, put him out of service and advised him to fix his log to show that he had been on duty and that he was no off duty at our location. I forwarded the information to our auditors. They went in to the terminal, and because they had a time marker for the guy, plus the photocopies I took of his log, he was one of the drivers whose records they checked. He showed himself off duty in WV and the same time that I gave him a ticket in Ontario.