Is there a legal limit on how long a truck driver can be behind the wheel?

A: Yes. Federal regulations control the amount of time a truck driver can drive. These regulations are designed to minimize the risks of driver fatigue, and drivers are required to maintain logs showing their time behind the wheel, and the origin and destination for each leg of their trip. Unfortunately, these logs are often maintained in duplicate, or are fabricated to comply with the regulations and have no relationship to what the drive was actually doing. Fortunately most drivers do not spend much effort on their log violations and they can be detected. Often there is other documentation such as GPS data, trip tickets, and fuel receipts that will contradict what was entered in a falsified log.

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