You’re right, Ed. I should have been more precise. As you say, they have to be out long enough to be required to take a rest under DOT rules. Under some circumstances they can only qualify for a partial day’s per diem.
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Subject: [taxchat] TRUCK DRIVER'S PER DIEM.
It’s not necessarily traveling out of town “overnight”. The driver’s log should show that he was required to take a layover due to being out of hours for the day. I had a driver from a local company that would leave
The trucking companies and the unions should do a better job of educating their drivers. I can see a lot of ugly audits coming from this.
Ed Pierpont
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