Day cab overnight runs - Provided hotel legally required?

you can't use sleeper berth so they should.

 

X2 here. If it’s legitimate what you’re saying, then yeah, they should pony up for a room. If you’re screwing the pooch, then don’t be a moron and get your job done.

 

That’s what personal conveyance is for on a day cab. If your empty going home put it on PC and put it in the wind.

 

“Legally” they don’t have to provide squat.

 

Legally, no they do not need to provide a hotel or other rest facility. Ethically, yes, a reasonable employer will provide resting facilities.

Unfortunately FMCSA does not define what an adequate resting facility is, and since the change to the definition of on-duty time back in 2004 (ish), drivers are legally permitted to log off-duty while "resting" in the cab of a parked commercial motor vehicle. This means it is legal to sleep in a day cab. This is the same exception that the hotshot folks use to sleep in their pickup truck cabs.

This is fairly normal in the driveaway segment, where drivers are mostly contractors delivering new and used trucks. If they want a hotel they pay for it. Now, the rest of the civilized trucking world that uses day cabs typically will pay for, or at least reimburse for, a reasonable hotel room. Sadly, all the motor carrier must do is allow you to be free from responsibility and to leave where the vehicle is parked to satisfy the intent of off-duty time.

Below is a clip from the FMCSA guidebook for hours of service
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmc...OS-395-DRIVERS-GUIDE-TO-HOS(2022-04-28)_0.pdf

 

You aren't providing many details. Are you trying to stretch an out and back run into a free hotel room or is the company scheduling a run(s) with say 10+ hours of driving one way and 10+ hours back and expecting drivers to pay for their hotel rooms?

 

PC'ing back to the home domicile is not what PC is for. That'll get OP a ticket.