Texas - hours of service

You only need enough hours to get to a truck stop that sells loose leaf logs

 

If anybody is using a Droid phone there is a great app called Recap+ that will help a person with that problem. It takes all the hard math out of the equation for those who are struggling to understand this simple problem.

 

Had an old timer at a truck stop tell me that $3.50 will get you 70.

 

That's some expensive books..

Sent from your iPhone via my Galaxy Nexus!

 

T/A is expensive.

 

Don’t worry about it just do what you want. Laws are made to be broken. If no one broke the law there would be no need for police, dot, courts, prisons or churches. So, it is my thinking that we need law breakers or unemployment rate for America would be over 50%. Do your part to help the economy!

 

HOS is federal, not state. But... you have two choices. First you need a recap chart to simplify things. You can either add up your last 7/8 days each day or you can do a rolling recap. If you aren't good adding and subtracting with fractions use a calculator.

Here's a chart trying to explain things. Ask questions what you don't understand.

 

If he's running Texas intrastate, they can operate under a different set of HOS rules.

 

They have the 150 mile exception and certain commodity exceptions but still follow the 70 hour rule if they are logging.

Here's the TX rules...

http://info.sos.state.tx.us/pls/pub...oc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_tac=&ti=37&pt=1&ch=4&rl=12