100 or 150 miles

Depends if you are running purely intrastate or intestate. For example, if you are a CA based motor carrier running only in CA, you are allowed the drive for 12 hours in a 16 hour on duty window instead of the federal 11/14 rule. As soon as you are interstate, you revert to federal regulations. States are allowed to manage their own intrastate commerce.

 

I checked and the guy was working for a farmer.

There is a 150 for farms and the non cdl.

Safer just to always consider a 100 mile radius though.

Here is another link I read in the past for intrastate drivers.

http://www.concretepumpers.com/pdfs/Hours_ServiceRegs.pdf


Illinois -[FONT=Verdana,Verdana][FONT=Verdana,Verdana]Illinois has adopted the federal hours of service regulations. However, the [/FONT][/FONT]100 [FONT=Verdana,Verdana][FONT=Verdana,Verdana]air-mile record of duty status (logbook) exemption has been upped to [/FONT][/FONT]150 [FONT=Verdana,Verdana][FONT=Verdana,Verdana]miles for intrastate drivers. For more information, please contact the Illinois Department of Transportation at (217) 785-1181.
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And the federal 100 mile rule is actually a 115 statute mile straight line distance, plus the other requirements to work without the logbook.

Imagine your starting point is the center of a phonograph record and your road is the groove winding around the record. You can drive an unlimited number of miles round and round the record as long as your starting/ending point and your farthest point (from record spindle to edge of record) is no more than 100 NAUTICAL miles. FMCSA/DOT defines the 100 air mile rule using NAUTICAL miles which are 1.15 per 1 statute mile (or what your odometer measures where miles, not kilometers, are used).
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/truck/driver/hos/hos-faqs.asp#_Toc111021238

To know if your trip is within the 100 mile limit you need a map and a straight edge or a GPS, the miles you tick off the odometer ARE NOT the measure of that 100(115mi) distance. Obviously, if the one-way distance from origin/destination is less than 115 odometer miles you can't have exceeded the 100 mile limit. However, just because you driven more than 115 odometer miles doesn't NECESSARILY mean you are over the limit. Drivers are typically going to switch between needing a logbook and operating under the 100 mile rule. It's not a decision the driver makes anyway. If your boss isn't recording your start/finish times, preserving your time records for 6 months, and otherwise making the FMCSA happy, you aren't legally going to use the logbook exemption anyway.

Also, the FMCSA/DOT rules make NO MENTION of crossing state lines. The old rules might have required a logbook once crossing state lines, but that IS NOT the case any more, and hasn't been for maybe 10 years.

100 air mile logbook exemption FMCSA 395.1(e)