30-minute break exemption.

i worry not. my logs are always "up to date", the most i can get nailed for is NOT taking that break. big deal.

been doing this crap for over 35 years now, i need NO ONE to tell me when to take a break.

 

A lot of states require employers to give their workers a break during their work shift.
Maybe the HOS doesn't require you to take a break but another law from another branch of government requires you to take a break.

 

And I thought people using paper logs never cheated, wmt

 

I agree... if it is company policy then the OP must follow the policy.

 

surely, you jest..?????


"backing up" a log is not cheating, it's a way to make sure one made no errors, or forgot something....

 

I am told in this state - Michigan - I can't use logs as a record of time keeping for business purposes if they are "local" drivers working under the air mile exemption. I have to provide them a time clock and nothing more than that and build in the 30 minute lunch break and the two 15 minute breaks that are required by law for hourly employees.

 

If you're on paper and operating under the 100 air mile exception, the company only needs a record of your hours worked...NOT a record of your duty status. If they want to see a log book page, start your day by dropping down to line 4. End your day going back up to line 1. As long as you keep it under 12 hours, and you never go beyond that 100th air mile from home base, then you're good. Make sure at a minimum you have the required info (name, date, start time, end time, total hours worked) as well as anything else the company will want on there (truck/trailer numbers, company name, BOL #'s, etc) and write "Local Log" in the remarks. No need to show a 30 minute break. On the days I qualify for the exception, that's all I do. On the days I do not qualify, I complete the RODS same as any OTR driver would and don't drive past the 8th hour without showing a 30 minute break.

If you're on elogs, that is still uncharted territory for me...never ran them, and not looking forward to them. I'll be changing the way I run, though, so that I seldom need to worry about them...12 hour days instead of two or three 14's per week with the occasional stretch to 16 if things don't go quite right. I won't have some ignorant box telling me I have to shut down 30 minutes from the house, so I'll just work shorter days closer to home and avoid that issue altogether. I know the regs, and have fought (and won) arguments on several occasions with safety department managers not liking something I've done perfectly legally within the scope of the exemptions and exceptions available to me under the regulations. Then again, everywhere I've ever worked, they only ask that you obey the regs. If company policy is more strict than the regs, you must abide by company policy or seek employment elsewhere.

 

As long as the required info is on those time cards, you can use them. If they are not paid by the hour, what the state requires is rather pointless...yet another example of bureaucrats governing without a clue.

 

The company decides if you get the 100 air mile exemption, not the driver. The company has to meet certain requirements in order for the driver to work as a 100 air mile exempt driver. The driver can't simply look at his odometer and declare it so. Usually the OTR driver is desperately trying to create a theory on the road that allows hims to pretend to be a short-hual driver for the purposes of getting out of a ticket.