Interesting question for Non CDL with medical

There is a very basic answer to all your questions. You first must be operating a Commercial Motor Vehicle. Federally defined as-

Commercial Motor Vehicle. For purposes of this regulation, a motor vehicle designed or regularly used to carry freight, merchandise, or more than ten passengers, whether loaded or empty, including buses, but not including vehicles used for vanpools, or recreational vehicles operating under their own power.

In most cases the vehicle must be over 10K LBS GVWR. or hauling a trailer over 10K GVWR. In CT, for example, interstate is federally mandated at 10K. Intrastate is 18K or combination thereof. If you are not operating over 10K, the logs and med card are not needed but I would chekc with the states that you run in .

 

I know all about this because I was a supervisor with a company that assigned me an F-350 pickup as a company vehicle and I have a CDL-A and also moved trucks between jobs where they would be on site for a couple of weeks or more .
The log book and medical card are required for operating a vehicle over 10,000lbs. gvwr . Any employee could drive my pickup without logging or a medical card unless the pickup was hauling some type of trailer .
Our jobs would run 24/7 with 2 12 hour shifts . At the end of the week I would have 84 hours in 7 days . I could drive the pickup logging as your employer correctly said , "On duty, not driving " . If a driver was not available with available hours to drive one of the CDL trucks I would be paid to sit in a hotel off duty a couple of days to get my hours back to drive the truck .
On the restart - originally you could not take a restart if you exceeded 70 hours . That has changed . You can restart the clock after 34 hours regardless of how many hours you had before the restart.

 

My understanding is u can only do a 34 hour restart if u have not (irepeat have not) violated the 70 hour rule.If u do 71 hours, u can NOT do a 34 hr restart. unless it's changed.

 

It has changed . Note there is nothing here saying you can't restart if you go over 70 in 8 . http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/truck/driver/hos/brochure.htm

Also note it says you cannot drive after 60/7 or 70/8 . It is not a violation to do non-driving work beyond these hours .

 

cool
thanks did not know that.

 

If i have a CDL AND DRIVING A COMPANY TRUCK THATS UNDER 10000 LBS,SHOULD IT BE STILL FILLING UP MY LOG BOOK?...IF SO,I SHOULD RESET EVERY AFTER 70 HRS DONT MATTER IF ITS SMALLER VEHICLE?.....DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?