New HOS Regulations 9-29-2020

Here is something, I would like you to try.... I don't know what type of work you do. But next time you are at a shipper, receiver, or a truck stop. Go to the FMCSA website, and run the DOT numbers around you on the new trucks, and mega carriers. Then go to hours of service, and you will be surprised at how many have drivers falsifying drivers logs with ELD.

 

And now the infrastructure bill with the most traction and bipartisan support also has that provision.

 

You're seriously outta touch with the real world

 

The thing is, in trucking, your always running up against the "maxium" times. Its not that laid back where you just climb into the sleeper or take a break when you feel like it. Its more like run, run, run, always under the gun!

 

Exactly. Not every trucking job is the same, some situations it just doesn't work the way some think it should just because their side of trucking does.

 

Thats right, some drivers have a easy dedicated gig where they never run out of hours, and then there is the OTR reefer driver who is running up against 11, 14, and 70 every friggin week.

 

By your math, you are using "Nautical miles".
"Air miles", as used here, means "Statute (5280-foot) miles".
Picture driving in a straight line from point A to point B, right through buildings, rivers, etc. That would be the measure of air miles, which you could measure on a good map.
Your odometer would read a bit more, since you have to zig and zag, but the actual miles driven could be anything from 150 miles up, as long as the two points are 150 air miles or less apart.

 

Except "air miles" are indeed nautical miles, not statute miles, and the exemption radius is indeed a little over 170 statute miles...

Edited to add: I should have clarified the 150 mile agricultural exemption radius is a little over 170 statute miles.

 

Negatory... "air miles" has always been the nautical mile measure.

Part 395
Section § 395.1: Scope of rules in this part.

Question 12: What constitutes the 100-air-mile radius exemption?

Guidance: The term “air mile” is internationally defined as a “nautical mile” which is equivalent to 6,076 feet or 1,852 meters. Thus, the 100 air miles are equivalent to 115.08 statute miles or 185.2 kilometers.​