H.O.S./ log question

The exact term they use is Unladen Vehicle... There is some dispute of that actually means Bobtail or with an empty trailer.

Yes, to attend to personal business.you can Off Duty Drive under the Personal Conveyance provision, but not to find a safe haven.

Realty is it is often used for finding safe havens and different companies have different polices concerning that, but technically, by Regulation, that is not am authorised use of it.

 

Question 26: If a driver is permitted to use a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) for personal reasons, how must the driving time be recorded?

Guidance:

a driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work, time spent traveling from a driver’s home to his/her terminal (normal work reporting location), or from a driver’s terminal to his/her home, may be considered off-duty time. Similarly, time spent traveling short distances from a driver’s en route lodgings (such as en route terminals or motels) to restaurants in the vicinity of such lodgings may be considered off-duty time. The type of conveyance used from the terminal to the driver’s home, from the driver’s home to the terminal, or to restaurants in the vicinity of en route lodgings would not alter the situation unless the vehicle is laden. A driver may not operate a laden CMV as a personal conveyance. The driver who uses a motor carrier’s Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) for transportation home, and is subsequently called by the employing carrier and is then dispatched from home, would be on-duty from the time the driver leaves home.

A driver placed out of service for exceeding the requirements of the hours of service regulations may not drive a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) to any location to obtain rest.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/395.8

 

I was about to post this same thing. They mean this bit I underlined. A driver was recently placed OOS by the Virginia DOT at one of the I 64 scales near Richmond. He was in the process of dropping his trailer when another officer wanted to know what he was doing. He told the officer he was going to use the tractor as a personal conveyance to go to a TS to get a meal and to sit out the OOS. The officer told the driver if he left the scale driving a CMV he would be arrested.