16 hr Rule

If you're using Motive, make sure you're on the screen that shows the date at the very top, the grid, and then the list of duty status changes.

Tap the circle with the plus sign in the middle of it in the bottom right corner.

A menu will pop up. From that menu, choose "Take 16-Hour exception" (assuming that your company has it enabled).

 

Yes. You are allowed to use the 16 hour once every 7 days unless you have had a 34, which will reset the once every 7 day calendar, but you will have had to start and end your last 5 work days (regardless of if you have had a 34 or not) from your regular working place. and you must return to your regular working place the day you use it.

 

That may be a company choice. I know by me I can use it and regularly run farther out than 150 air miles, but it does have to be approved by the mother ship.

 

Short haul is a bad description. Thee is no distance limit. There are three criteria though.
1. Must start and stop from to the same location for the last 5 days. (No, the shop down the street doesn't count.)
2. Must release from duty (off duty, so no warehouse work afterwards) at the 16 hour mark at the latest.
3. Can be used once every 7 days or a 34 reset.

 

Don't take anyone's word as gospel. The regulations aren't that large for HOS....
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395.1(O)
Property-carrying driver. A property-carrying driver is exempt from the requirements of § 395.3(a)(2) if:

(1) The driver has returned to the driver's normal work reporting location and the carrier released the driver from duty at that location for the previous five duty tours the driver has worked;

(2) The driver has returned to the normal work reporting location and the carrier releases the driver from duty within 16 hours after coming on duty following 10 consecutive hours off duty; and

(3) The driver has not taken this exemption within the previous 6 consecutive days, except when the driver has begun a new 7- or 8-consecutive day period with the beginning of any off-duty period of 34 or more consecutive hours as allowed by § 395.3(c).