Confused about log book

JUst got pulled over in MO. Mr DOT looked back 7 days and wrote me a ticket for tinted windows. Wow!!

 

The FMCSA "short haul" exemption is for operations that are within a 100 air-mile radius (115.078 statute miles), not 150 miles, not 100 intra-, or interstate, miles. It applies to any distance covered within the 100 air-mile radius. Also, it applies regardless of crossing state lines. So, a driver could drive 500 miles per day and cross states lines as many times as s/he wants and so long as it all falls within the 100 air-mile radius the exemption is applicable (assuming other conditions of the provision are met). Again, this is for federally regulated CMV property-carrying operations (which would apply if crossing state lines) and not intrastate only operations which would be subject to that state's regulations which may, or may not, be the same as the FMCSA regulations.

 

And the 150 mile exemption is for a CMV vehicle not requiring a CDL license such as Farm, Military, etc., so to the thread starter:

Yes, you are required to log, just like OTR.

There are different conditions depending on what you're carrying but pretty much if it needs a placard, you'll be stopping at railroad crossings in accordance with FMCSR 392.10 here:
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=392.10

 

that's a good reminder for me to check on that driver that I keep telling to take the tint off his window.

 

I reckon that even with a class B truck, you still should have been logging, since you were outside of the 100nm radius. It doesn't have to be a tractor-trailer to be a CMV.

Also the line-haul exemption is 2 parts. The first being the 100nm radius and the 2nd being a 12hr shift. If you work more than 12 hours a day from punch in to punch out, the radius doesn't matter. You need to log.

 

That's 100 air miles...the 150 mile exemption is for Non-CDL drivers.

 

Is the tint legal in your home state ? If it is you can't be ticketed for it in another state. We had a driver with a truck registered in OH ticketed for window tint in KY . The ticket was thrown out.

 

Not true. It is a commercial vehicle and they do not allow tint over a specific level. Minnesota gave a warning to one driver. Iowa ticketed same driver on it.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=393.60

(d) Coloring or tinting of windshields and windows. Coloring or tinting of windshields and the windows to the immediate right and left of the driver is allowed, provided the parallel luminous transmittance through the colored or tinted glazing is not less than 70 percent of the light at normal incidence in those portions of the windshield or windows which are marked as having a parallel luminous transmittance of not less than 70 percent. The transmittance restriction does not apply to other windows on the commercial motor vehicle.