Personal conveyance

No. You can not PC that.
The best option is to leave a bit later to let the traffic ease off.
You're sitting in it anyway, losing time.
500 miles shouldn't eat up 11hrs of drive time, especially on that Super Slab.

That would be MY solution.
I bet if you leave 90 min later or so.. you get back at the same time.

Try it.

 

Your not local driver your regional linehaul.
You can't PC to home, or terminal. It's all part of CFR 49 395.1(a). Which also says there are not time or mile limits for PC to park. So go fish.

 

Day cab has nothing to do with the local designation.
You're effectively running 2500+ miles per week.
There's OTR guys not getting that.

Now.. if you ran DFW area 4 days, and ran Oklahoma 1 day.. that would be local.
Maybe a 3/2 split. That's pushing it.

How much time are you spending at the OK terminal when you are there?

4hrs up
4hrs back
Leave at 7ish.. with a 30 and switch out time that puts you back at 4am-5am tops.

You should breeze in.

 

If you were truly local you would not need a log book.

 

You cannot pc, but it has nothing to do with regional, which is not a term FMCSA cares about.
You cannot because you are moving at the direction of the motor carrier.

Examples of Uses of a CMV that Would Not Qualify as Personal Conveyance
Time spent traveling to a motor carrier’s terminal after loading or unloading from a shipper or a receiver.

Now since you start/finish at the same location every day, you can use the 16 hour once a week. Doesn't help with drivetime, but helps if you get stuck at the shipper.

 

If I'm reading this correctly.... Does this turn take you approximately 13 1/2 hours every day?

Reason I ask, Is that years ago, I used to run Dearborn/Romulus Mi ( Detroit Suburbs ) to Sharonville, Ohio ( northern Cincinnati Suburb ) Approx 250 ish both ways.... If I started at 4pm, I got back around 5-6am.... when I brought it to management attention.... If I left at 2pm, I got back midnight/1am. This also included breaking a set in Toledo maybe 25% of time, or Dayton maybe 10% of time.
There where many days it would take 9.5 hours.... that depended on breakbulk ....
Also leaving late at approx 6pm... It'd still take roughly 10-11 hours. That 4pm time was the killer...