LIST OF DOCUMENTS THAT CAN BE USEFUL IN RECONSTRUCTING DRIVERS’ HOURS OF SERVICE:
- Driver’s Record of Duty Status logs (49 C.F.R. § 395.8)
- Records of driver daily report-for-duty times, release-from-duty times, and total on-duty times, if driver was exempt from logbook requirements of 49 C.F.R. § 395.8 because of the 100 air-mile radius exemption per 49 C.F.R. § 395.1(e)
- Automatic On-Board Recording Device (AOBRD, 395.15) or Electronic On-Board Recorder (EOBR, 395.16) eLog records
- Mobile telecommunication tracking system records indicating vehicle status, location, time of day, speed, etc.
- Mobile telecommunication system records showing text of messages between driver and dispatcher
- Drivers’ cell phone billing records listing each call
- Bills of lading
- Trip reports
- Expense sheets
- State entry and exit records
- En route warnings and citations
- Check point and weigh station records
- Trailer interchange records
- Toll tickets
- Fax transmissions regarding the subject trip and any and all goods loaded on the subject truck, bus, or tractor-trailer(s)
- Pickup and delivery records
- Trip summaries
- Credit card receipts
- Fuel receipts
- Lodging receipts
- Meal receipts
- Driver’s advances for each driver on the trip
- Payroll records for each driver on the trip
- Tachograph or other mechanical recording device records of speed and/or distance
- On-board computer and engine computer records of time, speed, etc.
- Dispatch records
- Fuel tax records
- Gross receipts tax records
- Federal use tax records
- Accident reports