Air miles

I run an app on my tablet called Radius on Map so I can see where my Ag exempt starts and stops.

 

We haul overweight.
We have cdl

We haul within 150 miles without eld or paper. We're AG.

 

Read up on the MAP21 law,
Short story below

The MAP-21 revision expands the current 100 air-mile radius to 150 air-miles (176.2 statute miles), and makes transportation from wholesalers to retailers eligible for the exception.

 

Half of the short-haul exemp drivers don't understand the reg. Almost everyone that isn't a newbie is adamant that crossing a state border is still in the regs for 100 air-mile drivers. State borders have no impact on FMCSA "short-haul" or 100 air-mile drivers. NOTHING, and borders have been irrelevant for at least 10-15 years.

 

Remember an “air mile” is a nautical term that equals 1.15 miles. Air mile does not mean how the crow flies. When I was local I varied a print out with a 230 mile diameter circle around home base.

 

Air-mile is the distance, which you correctly show a 1.15 "statute" miles (or what your odometer measures).

But the regulation IS concerned with the "crow fly" or straight line distance between where you start and the point farthest from your origin. The straight line distance on the map, not necessarily what roads you would drive to get from origin to that point is what matters.

Think of an old vinyl record. You start work at the center point of the record. The road to your customer, if that's the farthest point away, is the grooves on that record. As long as where your farthest point is and the straight line from center point to that farthest point is less than the 100 air-miles, which is 115 statute miles, and you meet the other record-keeping and other requirement, you are legal even if you drove 400 miles one-way to get there.

 

I use Google Maps. I just drop a pin where the load Origins and choose Measure Distance. I can see exactly where on my route I enter or exit the 150 Air Mile Ag Exempt. I will have to check out that app.

 

As far as the Regs apply, IT IS "AS A CROW FLIES" irregardless of what meanings "Air Mile" may carry.

 

I wouldn't be using the 1.15 number anyways.

There are lots of roads that will travel 5 miles within that 1 air mile.

 

I use it only because you can save all of them.