Short haul exception

If you don't want to spend 5 minutes in that green book, then that's your problem. Not mine.

 

As long as you are NOT working for an interstate carrier, and all the freight is INTRAstate.... otherwise you are under FMSCA jurisdiction. If the freight you move locally, comes from outside the state, then you are part of INTERstate commerce.

Now if you work for UPS, as a local driver that delivers to houses and business, that is a different regulation.

Question 16: May a driver use a record of duty status form as a time record to meet the requirement contained in the 100-air-mile radius exemption?
Guidance: Yes, provided the form contains the mandatory information.
Question 17: Is the “mandatory information” referred to in the previous guidance that required of a normal RODS under section 395.8(d) that of the 100-air-mile radius exemption under section 395.1(e)(5)?
Guidance:
The “mandatory information” referred to is the time records specified by §395.1(e)(5) which must show: (1) the time the driver reports for duty each day; (2) the total number of hours the driver is on duty each day; (3) the time the driver is released from duty each day; and (4) the total time for the preceding 7 days in accordance with §395.8(j)(2) for drivers used for the first time or intermittently.
Using the RODS to comply with §395.1(e)(5) is not prohibited as long as the RODS contains driver identification, the date, the time the driver began work, the time the driver ended work, and the total hours on duty.

You may use a time card, and NOT a log book, but you cannot log line 4 in a log book all day as a local driver... it is either a log book, with all the requirements, or a time card.

You really need to understand the federal regulations.