The driver must carry copies of the daily logs for the past
- 72 hours.
- 7 days.
- 10 days.
- 14 days. ✓
Answer: D. 14 days.
The driver must carry copies of the daily log for the day and the previous 14 days.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's list of documents a driver should carry and surrender on demand includes a daily log for the current day plus the previous fourteen days. That is where the 14-day figure comes from: it is the record-keeping period for the log copies you must have with you, not the seven-day or 14-day hours-of-service cycle described in the other passages. Those other passages cover driving limits and cycle rules, not how many days of logs to carry.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. 72 hours. — The handbook does not set a 72-hour log-carrying period; 72 hours appears in the cycle-reset rule for the 14-day cycle, not as the number of daily logs to carry.
- B. 7 days. — A seven-day cycle is an hours-of-service cycle in the passages, not the required period for carrying daily log copies.
- C. 10 days. — Ten days is not given as the log-carrying period; the daily requirement passage mentions 10 hours off-duty in a day, not 10 days of logs.
Remember it
Use the phrase "today plus fourteen": current day first, then the previous two weeks.