local driver home every night question

Supposedly a driver can go off duty and still drive a truck. Yet if they want you to go off duty, you can bet they wont pay you.

I say stick with getting paid. Agree with them just keep on as you are already

 

The 16 hour emergency exception extends your 14 hour clock by 2 hours. It doesn't give you any additional hours to drive. You can drive your normal 11 hours over 16 hours once per week if some unforeseen event requires it. A long backup in the usual construction zone is not an unforeseen event. Snow on Donner pass in January isn't an unforeseen event. If you are regularly using the 16 hour rule, it's less and less likely you/company are complying with the unforeseen description.

You also must have 10 hours off duty before you come back and drive the next day, not 10 hours minus the 2 hours you burned the day before. 10 hours off duty before driving again and always in compliance with the 70 hour/8 day or 60 hour/7 day rules. And this is assuming you and your boss/company are meeting all of the other requirements that allow you/them to use the Short-Haul Exception (100 air mile rule) to Record of Duty Status (logbook) rule.

 

The 16 hour big day can be used once per week or after each 34 hour reset.
And it doesn't have to be for an emergency or unseen reason either. And as the others said, the 16 doesn't allow for more than 11 hours of driving it just extends the 14 hours

 

Another provision of the 16 hour exemption is you must have started and returned, to the same location on your 5 previous work shifts.

 

The16 gives you extra 2 hours . No extra drive time. Dont know about your pay, etc. Someone else gave you some examples of whats not a unforeseeable event. Who cares why you need the extra 2 hrs? Thats your business. You dont have to explain why you used the 2 hr exception.