Short-Haul On/Off-Duty Compliance Question

Loading, unloading, fueling, are on-duty. They are never not on-duty. Your operation may not requires logs if you meet all requirements for short-haul or 100 air mile RODS exemption. But that doesn't change anything from on-duty to off-duty. It just exempts you from recording them in you Record of Duty Status (logbook).

 

If you are operating inside the magic 150 mile bubble (Actually 172.1 regular miles...) you can work a thousand hours a week (Not possible as only 168 hours in a week) forever and ever.

If you were confronted with ELD or logbook, you do need to log all time driving or onduty. The days of unloading a reefer 24 hours and marking 15 minutes is long over.

When if you ever go true OTR trucking, go with companies that do only drop hook. The live loading and live unloading is such a parasite against your availible hours. Some places need a whole day just to get a dock.

 

Oh for the days of yesteryear. I'd get to Odessa to do 6 drops there. I'd go On Duty at the first stop then forget about it. 3 hours later I was finished in Odessa and ready to go to Midland. So, naturally I move the On Duty graph line over an hour, then down to Off Duty for 2 hours then to Driving at real time, then carry my happy butt over to Midland to repeat the process before heading to Abilene.

Good times, and was never hassled about any of it at any point. I wasn't an unsafe driver. I was a less-then-honest driver who had a job to do. Besides, 15 minute graph segments were impossible to deal with when stops were all a mile or two apart, and 5-20 minutes each stop