Truck Driver Log Book Violation Attorney

Truck drivers are required to maintain a log.  Your failure to keep an accurate and timely log can result in you being prosecuted and facing excessive fines.  If you are issued a summons for a log book violation, call our team of lawyers with more than 20 years of legal experience.

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Under NY Transportation Law § 213 a trucker can be found guilty of a misdemeanor and sentenced up to 6 months in jail for falsifying a log book.

§ 213. Penalties;  enforcement. Any person violating the provisions of this article or failing to keep or falsifying any records to be kept  in compliance   therewith,   or   any  corporation,  company,  association, joint-stock association, partnership, person or  any  officer  or  agent thereof,  who  shall  require  or  permit  any  person  to  violate  the provisions of this article or to  falsify  any  record  to  be  kept  in compliance  therewith shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of two hundred dollars, or  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  six months,  or  both.  It  shall be the duty of the commissioner, all peace officers, acting pursuant  to  their  special  duties,  and  all  police  officers,  and  they  are  hereby authorized, empowered, and required to enforce the provisions of this article.