Fuel purchase records and electronic toll transactions are timestamped and location-specific, generated by third parties rather than the driver or carrier. Carriers must retain them as supporting documents for hours of service verification.
They are typically obtainable from fuel card providers and toll authorities.
Alternative Names:
Fuel Receipts, Toll Transaction Records
Why it Matters?
These records are the most reliable cross-check on driver logs because they originate outside the carrier's control and cannot be edited after the fact. A fuel purchase three hundred miles from where the log places the driver at that hour establishes a falsified record without any expert testimony. Third-party origin also makes them available by subpoena even where the carrier's own records are incomplete.
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