14 th Hour Rule

That rule is not for everyday use. You have a Motor Carrier Safety/Regulations handbook don't you? Read it and tell us what it says. Or better yet have your company show you where it says it can be used as such. You may want to contact your safety department..if there is one. This topic has absolutely been beaten to death and answers can be found easily by looking at the gazilion previous threads on the subject. Now, for my morning coffee.

 

It isn't a 14 hour extension...it is a 16 hour once a week provision as long as the driver returns to the home terminal every night. The local, 100 mile (air mile) radius, but you cross state lines so that takes the 16 hour rule away and you are not considered local crossing state lines.

 

That is new.

Many local drivers in the St. Louis area cross back and forth and are subject to the rule.

 

I know they are, it was just a reply to the other poster who states crossing the state lines invalidates it.

 

Refer to my answer in the thread titled "14 Hour Rule Question" in this same section. 100 air radius miles and state lines are irrelevant to the discussion. I'm not going to copy and paste everything here. Just go read it there and it should answer your question.

 

The Federal rule could be OK...but state laws also must be checked...and CA it is not permissable to cross a state line and stay on the local log rules. And NV also works in conjunction with CA as far as commercial rigs and the log rules. So the example of Stateline/S. Lake Tahoe is wrong. the other states I don't know and really don't care since I drive OTR and I don't plan on driving local for anyone so it is a moot point for me. I did the local bit in CA...we hauled fuel from Sac to Mammoth Lake, as long as we stayed in CA we had the 16 hour exemption and could do the round trip back to the base terminal...in the winter one section of the CA route closes, so down into Gardnerville and then south on 395...losing the 80 hour log and the 16 hour exemption.

 

i belive this depends on the municipalities... i know here we are only 15 miles from the idaho line and aslong as you stay north if I90 and don't cross into montana the 16 hour rule once a week still applies...

 

Municipalities, and state regs....exactly...cross into Montana and you are OTR rules again.