HOS Local Driver

You can only be on duty, on duty not driving for 70 hours per week for your reset. So if you started on Sunday and worked 15 hours a day you can only work 4.6 days.. And then for your reset to begin again would be Sunday before you can drive,you can do work let's say around the yard and go over 70 hours.. And have a 34 hour recap on Saturday.. BUT then you can go on the 70 hours in 8 days.. Where your total hours in 8 days can't go over 70 hours. If you want to work everyday.. It works out to about 8 1/2 hours a day. The biggest thing with that is keeping the recap accurate or it's easy to go over. So if you drop 4 hours.. And were bumping the 70.. It means that you can only work 4 hours. And a day off is 0. And when you are at 70-0 is 0 hours for the day. It can be done.. We did it for many years.. But it is real easy to make mistakes on your hours.. Don't forget politicians wrote these laws.. So if your going HUH? Join the crowd.

 

Thx Reef....but I wasn't planning on running an HOS log, although that option is always available. Going to utilize the Short-haul exemption that exempts requirements of 395.8. Will operate using the 12 hour on-duty status available to operations that don't exceed a 100 air-mile radius (115.08 statute miles) and keeping a simple time sheet at home, which will be my Report for Duty location. All I'm required to record is: 1) Report for Duty time 2) Hours On-duty and 3) Released from Duty time. And there's no requirement to even keep that record on-board the truck! No more than 12 hours on-duty per day (which have to run consecutive) and must have 10 hours off-duty before going on-duty again. No tracking of Driving time versus On-duty-Not-driving time. The haul I'll be doing is 138 miles one-way (I live "inside" the route). Return empty for next load. To get in two round trips (552 miles) will be close to the 12 hours (very short load and unload time). So what I was trying to determine is, once I work 5 days (60 hours), when can I work again? My loads can be picked up and unloaded 24/7 which is kinda nice. Not interesting in working non-stop...just trying to figure out what my options and abilities will be.

 

nottoway, once you have worked 5 days (60 hrs., if finishes on say Friday at midnight). You can return to work at 5:01 am on Sunday morning. You are not required to take a 34, but if you do. It must include (2) periods of 1am to 5 am blocks in consecutive order.

Basically, as long as you have a "legal 34" between work periods, you're good to go.

Or, you can recap, and run without a reset, if you don't work 12 hrs a day, everyday. Basically, only do one turn a day, and you will never have to worry about it. You could then run 7 days a week, without having to worry.

 

don't forget to log in a 1/2 break on your time card after 4 hours. The way that I've logged on a time card is to show X amount of hours as driving and the x amount for loading unloading. .. Now don't forget that you have another 10 hours that are available.

 

As of Aug 2, 2013 short-haul is exempt from the half-hour break requirement.

 

Labor law says you have at least 1/2 lunch.. Check it out. Also some states require you to have 15 minute breaks.

 

Most labor laws exempt truck drivers.
Since a large sector of this industry in interstate.

 

Hmm, never saw any reference to "labor law" in Section 395 of the motor carrier regs. Check it out.

 

they don't have OSHA laws in the green book either. But if you break them.. You get to pay.. As in being on a load that is more than 6 ft off the ground with out fall protection. Or not wearing PPE when required. The green book is the fmcsa laws.. You are covered under many other. EPA, OSHA, in a quarry for anything.. MSHA, labor laws, state vehicle code laws, city or county ordinances. The green book isn't the only laws to worry about.

 

Oh, so now we need to know ALL of this for every jurisdiction we enter? Have to admit, that's going to be a tough night of studying.