Short Haul Exception

395.8 is NOT the hours of service, but merely the requirement to maintain a record of duty status (log book). So long as you meet ALL of the requirements under the 100 air-mile exemption, you are not required to complete a record of duty status...however, the moment you become aware that you are no longer eligible to claim the 100 air-mile exemption, you MUST complete a log book page to bring it current

The adverse driving conditions exception in 395.1(b) extends drive time (i), not the 14 hours (ii)....and those adverse conditions cannot have been known at the time the dispatch was issued. In other words, if blizzard warnings were in effect when you were dispatched on the load, you cannot claim the adverse conditions exemption.

The 16 hour exemption is found in 395.1(o)

In other words, you must have started and stopped each day for the previous 5 days at your normal reporting location (i.e. terminal), must be released within 16 hours from reporting to work, and you can only take it once per week. This extension does NOT allow additional driving time beyond the 11th driving hour, only relaxes the 14 hour rule under 395.3(2) to allow a driver meeting the requirements the extra time he may need to return to the terminal. When using the 16 hour exception, you are still limited to 11 hours of driving. This exemption is meant to cover delays at shippers, receivers, mechanical breakdowns, or other unforeseen problems one might encounter during the day.

 

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