Consruction Hours of Service

No. they do not. We just got audited and came up as satisfactory. We do not drive over the 100 mile rule so we do not fill out a log book.I don't know how they get away with, something to do with being in the service business.

 

pm one of the mods...they can fix the title for ya....

 

Ya you don't have to fill out a log book. But the rest of the rules still apply to you, if your behind the wheel. Example you drive to a job 1 hour than pump concrete for 15 hours. You can't drive the truck back from the job site. Legally anyway.

Maybe I got it wrong ..........

 

HOS still apply, but ordinarily you would operate under the 100 air-mile radius exemption. All that means is that you don't have to keep a log book, but you are restricted to a 12 hour work day, you must be released from duty at the same location you reported for duty, and you must stay inside the 100 air-mile radius. Your company also needs to maintain a record of the hours you work...which can be in any manner they choose, so long as the records contain your name, the date, the time you start, the time you stop, and the total hours worked that day. If you punch a time clock, that will cover that because whoever is doing the payroll probably writes how many hours you worked each day on the time card to tally it up to pay you. Any day you exceed 12 hours, or any day which you leave the 100 air-mile radius area, you would be required to fill out a log book page for that day.

Now if you NEVER cross state lines, and your company does not have interstate operating authority, then your HOS requirements could be different. If you operate 100% of the time within the same state, and your company ONLY operates in that one single state, then the FMCSA really doesn't have the power to regulate you....so you'd have to abide by whatever rules your state has put in place (which often times mirror the federal regulations pretty closely...but some states have their own rules which vary to some degree).

 

We were just audited after one of our drivers killed 2 people and we passed. I have worked 20 hrs a couple of times 16 hrs a few times 17 hrs a bunch nof times and apparently it didn't faze the dot people.No he wasn't over hrs it happened around lunchtime and he was only working for about 6 hrs!

 

One of our competitors list their operators as sales reps so not to be consisred drivers!

 

They can list them and consider them anything they want, but if they have a CDL they still have to follow state/federal regulations.

 

Here in ontario canada, we don't have licence plates on concrete pumps or cranes or vac trucks, so they are not a commercial vehicle.

 

We have special mobile equipment tags. A lot of the leo don't like messing with them.