Handling Unassigned Miles - ELD

1.  Drivers always have the opportunity to assign any unassigned drive time to themselves.  They can do it by accepting the suggested "unassigned movement" at Sign On, and at time by hitting "alerts", or by editing their log.  This is important, because FMCSA has shifted how they view an electronic log. They see it the same as a paper log - meaning it is the driver's log.  Not the company's log. The driver is responsible for correcting.

But because they won't always do that....

2.  Unassigned Miles Summary report tells us which vehicles to focus on.  

3.  With that information you can either

A.  Look at the vehicle log filtered by Vehicle - and then "get vehicle data" to show the specific starts/stops of the vehicle

B.  Look at the Unassigned Miles Report.  

Both show you the exact start and stop times, just depends on which method you like better.  

4.  Now we know the exact times vehicles were being driven with unassigned miles.  Dispatch will have to figure out who is in the truck. It will become evident the next pay period when that driver does not get paid.  

5.  Ask the driver to edit his/her own log.  

6.  If that fails, the admin can edit/draw in the log for the driver.  If that happens, this log gets tossed back out to the driver in the truck for validation.