local hours of service..?? confused

Its in your handbook, the one required by regulations that you carry in your truck !!!!!!!!!!!! Just look up HOS.

 

He needs to follow the rules about required breaks. He doesn't need to complete a log book if he stays within 100 miles. The log book and break requirements are required no matter what his job description is, if he drives a commercial vehicle that requires a CDL to legally operate. I hope this helps.

 

Here's the deal with the HOS. The short haul exemption means you do not have to fill out a log if you drive in a radius of 100 AIR miles or less unless you exceed 12 hours on your shift - then a log needs to be filled out.

Here is how the 14/16 hour days work for drivers that begin and end at the same terminal/yard daily. One day per week, you can exceed the 14'th hour while on line 3 (driving) so long as you don't exceed 11 total hours of driving or 16 total hours from the start to the end of the shift. It only applies if your driving. In other words, I could return to my terminal on 13.5 hours and perform 2 more hours of work on line 4 and my 16 hour day is still intact. Being that I only run a 60 hour book I would run out on my 60 first. There is no total amount of hours that your allowed to work - you just cannot drive once your 60/70 has been used. There have been instances lately at Con-way where drivers ran out on their 60 as early as Thursday so all they could do on Friday was work the dock.

If the power company is governed by HOS, he should be filling out a log daily because he is working more than 12 hours. The drive time would be easy to get around if there are two guys in the truck and shifts are cycled. To make a long story short, he can indeed work 15 hour shifts all week he just cannot drive past the 14'th hour more than once or once his 70 is used.

We run into this a lot at Con-way. I know the HOS pretty well as it pertains to local driving so if you have any questions I should be able to answer them or I'll find the correct answer.