Driving passed 11 hours due to weather?

You can use adverse conditions to drive an additional 2 hours. The catch is you cannot drive past the 14 hour mark. Meaning your 14 hour clock still stands but you are allowed to drive up to 13 hours in the 14 hour window.

 

While this true it can only be used for unforseen/ unknown at the time of dispatch.
Trying to use this to beat a predicated weather event ain't gonna fly. (

 

Sure you can. <sarc Good luck getting away with that.

Question 5: How may a driver utilize the adverse driving conditions exception or the emergency conditions exception as found in §395.1(b), to preclude an hours of service violation?

Guidance:

An absolute prerequisite for any such claim must be that the trip involved is one which could normally and reasonably have been completed without a violation and that the unforeseen event occurred after the driver began the trip.

Drivers who are dispatched after the motor carrier has been notified or should have known of adverse driving conditions are not eligible for the two hours additional driving time provided for under §395.1(b), adverse driving conditions. The term “in any emergency” shall not be construed as encompassing such situations as a driver’s desire to get home, shippers’ demands, market declines, shortage of drivers, or mechanical failures.

 

30 miles to get over the pass before a big snow storm hits? Ya id have ran that and made a notation saying 'went over hos while seeking safe parking'.

 

Good point, LOL.

 

This is a major reason why the HOS need to be overhauled. Forcing a driver to sit on one side of a pass until after a storm hits then making him run it in bad conditions is asinine.

 

Who is making?

You are the driver. You decide if it is safe to run it or not. If you know the pass is too rough, stay put.

Call dispatch for new appointments as necessary.

 

Agreed. Unfortunately drivers spent the last 15 years fighting the elog battle instead of the hos battle.