UPDATE/FMCSA issues interim rule on truck driver hours of service

I'd really dread the on-board electronic recorders. What about the times, you have no choice but to move a couple miles up the road in the middle of your break?

 

They need to enforce the current laws by making the trucking companies pay dearly for repeat offenders. Throw them in jail

 

actually there is a rule that in certain situations you can use IF your carrier allows it is called personal conveyance. its one of them rules that is about as clear as mud but it is there

 

Rules are written buy lawyers and personal conveyance has to do with common sense which is why they are clear as mud.

 

I wish they'd at least change it to be the same as Canada. If you drive COMPLETELY legally, you aren't tired. Making it only 11 hours just cuts into the income of good workers.

 

You can not use it to just move the truck because you are out of hours. By the rules if you run out of hours at a shipper or receiver and need to leave their property you will need to either get a driver with fresh hour to drive or have the truck towed.

The rules are very cut and dry. We as drivers try stretch and poke holes in them.

Question 26: If a driver is permitted to use a CMV for personal reasons, how must the driving time be recorded?

Guidance: When a driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work, time spent traveling from a driver's home to his/her terminal (normal work reporting location), or from a driver's terminal to his/her home, may be considered off-duty time. Similarly, time spent traveling short distances from a driver's en route lodgings (such as en route terminals or motels) to restaurants in the vicinity of such lodgings may be considered off-duty time. The type of conveyance used from the terminal to the driver's home, from the driver's home to the terminal, or to restaurants in the vicinity of en route lodgings would not alter the situation unless the vehicle is laden. A driver may not operate a laden CMV as a personal conveyance. The driver who uses a motor carrier's CMV for transportation home, and is subsequently called by the employing carrier and is then dispatched from home, would be on-duty from the time the driver leaves home.


A driver placed out of service for exceeding the requirements of the hours of service regulations may not drive a CMV to any location to obtain rest.

Mark

 

They have to catch me first

 

I drive from my home with a trailer, some times it is laden some times it's not, Would I be able to use personal Conveyance rule for an empty trailer to get to my stop, where I drop the first trailer (empty or not) and pick up the trailer that I will deliver on that day?

Thanks for any replies,

RollingThunder