24 or 34 hour restart ?

Another option, call the local CMV office for the DOT and talk to them.

You don't have to id yourself either. Just dial *82 before you dial their number. It's for Caller ID blocking.

 

I concur. If you never actually arrive at a well site, then you're not able to take advantage of the oilfield exemptions.

 

I've been through this with the DOT as my guys do plant to plant moves as well as deliver to the field. If they have hauled a plant load they have to do a 34 for the next seven days then they can go back to a 24 until they do another plant load it can get confusing as hell but they figure it out.

 

And that right there should tell you that the HOS rules should be completely disregarded from a safety standpoint. How the hell can you say that a driver can be safer or more rested with less time off simply because he picked up or delivered to a different place in the same amount of time?

Someone needs to haul this whole HOS thing into court and let a rational, level headed judge evaluate it.

 

It looks to me that the oilfield drivers should have the same 10hr sleeper off, then 24hr off just like any other driver. They are getting gyped really out of their off time.

 

You might think they are getting gypped out of their off time but do they think so? One way of looking at it is they can put in more hours per week thereby making more money. 24 hours off used to be plenty of time to get rested.

 

24 off is more than enough time to get rested. Anyway when your servicing a job that has a day rate in the tens of thousands of dollars you don't want to be the guy that shut it down because you were out of hours. I can usually shut down at noon and be back running by noon the next day and feel plenty rested there's more than enough time to sleep when they quit drilling so you got to get it while its there.