Texas log book laws

I was talking to another Texas driver the other day who only runs in Texas, he told me that the 30 minute rule is not required in Texas and that if I'm off duty for 2 hours it does not count against my total on duty/driving time. Is this true? I've been running my logs like I've always run them which means i always put 30 minutes down for a break before 8 hours is up and I count all hours from the start of the day to the end so if im at a receiver/shipper for a couple hours I count that as on duty not driving time but would be nice not to have to count everything in the particular situations. Oh and the other thing he said was that in Texas 8 hours is all that is required to restart not the 10. just wanting to make certain that this is actually the case before committing it to my log. and yes I've read the texas code book and it seems that this is the case but with the lawyer jargon it's hard to be 100% certain.

 

Right. But the reality in my situation is that I'd probably know more about it then they would as I work for a small company and there not exactly experts in Texas law concerning log book requirements. But I'll call them anyways.

 

I'm sure some new oil field guys in Texas will be helped by that.

Are you saying that what you stated as rules for oil field drivers has no application for other drivers in Texas? so in another words 30 min breaks are still required and 11/14 and so on in Texas? or are you just familiar with oil field rules? just to clarify.

 

Ok, seems simple enough. Now I just need to find out if the 30 minute breaks are required.