Am I abusing HOS exemptions too much?

So lately I've been using exemptions on my ELD to sort of but not technically if you think about it cheat.

So as for some examples: a previous time I used adverse conditions to get myself an hour and a half away from a shipper that sucked up all but 7 minutes of the time I had left and this last trip I used it to give myself extra time so I could just drive home instead of sleeping in a truck stop and I was also about to throw in personal conveyance if I couldn't beat the clock (which I did, being governed at 83 comes in handy around here).

This load I'm heading out in the wee hours of monday morning next week is a 10 hour out and back. It's over a lot of mountains, even though I'll be light I'll be really pushing it to get back in 11 hours and having to strap and unstrap will probably burn the rest of my work day, so I'm expecting to use personal conveyance and just drive home instead of back to the yard.

Now from my understanding I haven't done anything technically illegal though perhaps pushing the definition of adverse conditions. So my question is am I pushing it too far? Is using exemptions on a weekly basis going to throw up red flags or is me being technically not illegal probably if you think about it good enough?

 

Company driver, this load is just going to be moving product our company produces to our own company stores, no backhaul planned but I like to get them to throw on any returns since I'll get an extra $25 for it, I won't know if I'll have that until I get there.

In the examples I gave of previous times I was loaded, heading back to my home city.

 

Oh I see, I didn't think of that. I read the HOS rules from a few sources but none of them mentioned whether the miles were paid or not.

Trying to improve the 11 hour.
Not everyday but once or twice a week on the way back to push home, I keep running out of hours only an hour or two away from home and I really rather sleep in my own bed rather than the truck if I can help it.
When I'm heading out to receivers I don't really care because I'm sleeping in the truck regardless, I stop a couple hours before my 11 hours is out in the early afternoon so I can get a nice parking spot.