Hours of service in California

Dude, you must be a zombie. When do you actually sleep and for how long? 100% illegal.

 

If your stopped, your company wont stick up for you........

 

On log book 14 hours from start to finish, on time card 12 from start to finish, either way you are illegal as can be.

 

I'm not too hip on it but 16 hour rule does not apply to interstate drivers? I thought the 16 hour thing was only for 100 mile radius drivers. Someone will be along shortly to set it straight. I remember when Swift went live with Elogs across the board, there was a button on the logs called 16 Hour Exemption, lol we used to use it every chance we got. Sometime after it was quietly removed.

In the interstate world, it is 14 hour limit so starting at 0530 your clocks end at 1930. However at 1000 you could go to the sleeper for 8 solid hours and extend that 1930 out to 0330.

I recommend visiting logbook website and downloading the eclipse software. You can plug in your times on the logs and it will show a red line where violations start this way you will know when you cannot go further.

 

By the way, the final destination of the freight has no bearing on your classification of intrastate vs interstate, it depends if YOU cross state lines.

 

If you start at 5:30AM and are planning on taking the 16 hour exemption, you would have to finish your shift by 9:30PM and finish the shift in the same location you started. This exemption can only be taken once every 7 days, and you must also have started and stopped your shift in the same location the previous 5 days you have worked. The regulations pertaining to this are in FMCSR 395.1o.

The 16 hour rule applies to any driver that stops and starts his day at the same location everyday.

Drivers using the 100 mile air radius rule don't have to keep a log book as long as they work less than 12 hours a day and stay within 100 air miles of their reporting location.

This is incorrect. The origin and destination of the freight determines if you are classified as an interstate or intrastate driver for the purposes of FMCSA rules. There was a poster on here that called himself "Driver of the year" who found that out the hard way pulling containers in FLA. My last driving job I was an intra-city driver in Richmond, VA that was subject to interstate rules because the freight I was pulling had a final destination outside of VA.

 

Sorry semi retired, you are wrong, as per part 390.5, definitions, commerce between two places within a state is interstate if the freight either originates from or is destined for another state or country. See the definition below from the FMCSA website.

Interstate commerce means trade, traffic, or transportation in the United States—
(1) Between a place in a State and a place outside of such State (including a place outside of the United States);
(2) Between two places in a State through another State or a place outside of the United States; or
(3) Between two places in a State as part of trade, traffic, or transportation originating or terminating outside the State or the United States.

To answer the OP question, yes you can split your shift but not for as long as you do, you are allowed one 16 hour day if your vehicle requires a CDL, 2 16 hour days if your vehicle doesn't require a CDL, interstate or intrastate does not matter so long as you leave from and return to the same place that day and the five previous days. See Part 395.1 sub section O, as copied below:

(o) Property-carrying driver. A property-carrying driver is exempt from the requirements of § 395.3(a)(2) if:
(1) The driver has returned to the driver's normal work reporting location and the carrier released the driver from duty at that location for the previous five duty tours the driver has worked;
(2) The driver has returned to the normal work reporting location and the carrier releases the driver from duty within 16 hours after coming on duty following 10 consecutive hours off duty; and
(3) The driver has not taken this exemption within the previous 6 consecutive days, except when the driver has begun a new 7- or 8-consecutive day period with the beginning of any off-duty period of 34 or more consecutive hours as allowed by § 395.3(c).

I hope this helps clear up any confusion on this subject.