Is this legal??

HOS is the same everywhere.

Can’t drive a cmv following the 14th hour from an initial start of the clock without having 10 hours off duty
Can’t drive a cmv following the 11th hour of driving without having 10 hours off duty.

Short haul carriers are not exempt from reset requirements.

 

If you stay within 100 air miles of your terminal HOS doesnt apply the same as regular OTR. I believe you can drive local like that for up to 14 hours... Not sure how resets are applied or if they are even required. I'm guessing you dont run a log book either, correct?

 

Since the OP is only running Florida, he or she might be subject to intrastate HOS, which may be different from interstate.

Under the interstate short haul, you still can only drive 11 hours, and must return back to where you start within 12 hours. Otherwise you fill out a log sheet for that day. And yes, you can run across state lines under the short haul provision, provided that you don't exceed 100 air miles.

 

Florida intrastate..........

can drive 12 hours AFTER having 10 hours off

Are exempt from keeping logs if within 150 air miles and non hazardous

And I believe are still subject to reset restrictions

 

Florida Hours of Service Rules - Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

 

Maybe. Just because the driver stays in the state doesn't mean it's intrastate. It depends on the load for that. Like if he's pulling out of a port or railyard or such would be interstate.

 

From everything I am reading, the answer is NO. Even if you work intrastate, you can not start a new shift with less than 10 consecutive hours off. From the sounds of it, you operate within a legal proximity of your barn that exempts you from paper/elogs and your company is milking the exemption and running you outside of the parameters of the law. If it's a legit concern, I would say something. Otherwise you will be on the hook if you get into an accident (even if you are not at fault).

Your company can (and probably will) say that they are exempt from logging their hours but are still requiring their drivers to have enough legal time off between shifts. No dispatcher or supervisor will admit to making you come in with only 8 hours off. That's all on you.