A CRJ200 CAPT CHKED THE PARKING BRAKE AFTER MAINT HAD CLRED THE PARKING BRAKE ADVISORY LIGHT RPT. TECHNICIAN ADVISED THE CAPT ANGRILY NOT TO ACTIVATE ANY CTLS UNTIL THE LOGBOOK IS CLRED.

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AFTER ARRIVING AT THE ACFT AT THE CONCOURSE; I COMPLETED THE FLT COMPARTMENT SAFETY INSPECTION AND TURNAROUND CHKLISTS AND FOUND THAT WHEN THE PARKING BRAKE WAS PHYSICALLY SET THE PARKING BRAKE ON ADVISORY MESSAGE WOULD SOMETIMES NOT APPEAR. SO I MADE AN ENTRY IN THE ACFT MAINT LOGBOOK AND A MECH CAME OUT TO THE ACFT. THE MECH WENT TO THE COCKPIT AND I WENT BACK TO THE CABIN. A FEW MINS LATER; THE MECH LEFT THE COCKPIT; TOLD ME IT 'WORKED LIKE A CHAMP' AND EXITED THE ACFT WHILE CARRYING THE ACFT MAINT LOGBOOK. I THEN TOOK MY SEAT IN THE COCKPIT. THERE WAS NO 'MAINT IN PROGRESS' TAGS DISPLAYED AND EVERYTHING APPEARED NORMAL. SO I ACTUATED THE PARKING BRAKE SEVERAL TIMES TO ENSURE IT WAS FIXED. AND THAT IS WHEN ANOTHER MECH CAME TO THE COCKPIT AND ANGRILY TOLD ME THAT I WAS NOT TO BE MOVING THE CTLS BECAUSE MAINT WAS NOT YET COMPLETE. I WAS THEN TOLD NEVER TO TOUCH ANYTHING UNTIL THE ACFT MAINT LOGBOOK WAS SIGNED OFF AND IN MY HANDS. I WILL CERTAINLY COMPLY; HOWEVER; IT HAS BEEN COMMON PRACTICE FOR OUR MECHS TO FIX AN ITEM AND THEN TAKE THE ACFT MAINT LOGBOOK BACK TO THEIR TRUCK TO COMPLETE THE PAPERWORK WHILE WE PLTS RESUME READYING THE ACFT FOR DEP.