Driving while showing On-Duty, Not Driving?

Here's the answer straight from the DOT website.

Question 6: How should multiple short stops in a town or city be recorded on a record of duty status?
Guidance: All stops made in any one city, town, village or municipality may be computed as one. In such cases the sum of all stops should be shown on a continuous line as on-duty (not driving).The aggregate driving time between such stops should be entered on the record of duty status immediately following the on-duty (not driving) entry. The name of the city, town, village, or municipality, followed by the State abbreviation where all the stops took place, must appear in the “remarks” section of the record of duty status.

 

Here's one I'd bet most drivers were unaware of. Granted, it refers to 10 hours of driving not 11, you can do the math to extrapolate, but it's still in force. Again, straight from the DOT website:

Subpart A—General Question 1: How many miles may a driver record on his/her daily record of duty status and still be presumed to be in compliance with the speed limits?
Guidance: Drivers are required to conform to the posted speed limits prescribed by the jurisdictions in or through which the vehicle is being operated. Where the total trip is on highways with a speed limit of 65 mph, trips of 550-600 miles completed in 10 hours are considered questionable and the motor carrier may be asked to document that such trips can be made. Trips of 600 miles or more will be assumed to be incapable of being completed with out violations of the speed limits and may be required to be documented. In areas where a 55 mph speed limit is in effect, trips of 450-500 miles are open to question, and runs of 500 miles or more are considered incapable of being made in compliance with the speed limit and hours of service limitation.

 

In my experience most times this isn't an issue unless it's an extremely flagrant violation ... or the person inspecting your logbook is a completely ignorant jerk. There's a couple of those at the scale in Lima, MT.

YMMV