2024 Facts for Drivers PDF

hours of drive tume per day and 15 hours of total on-duty time following 8 hours off. These regulations remained relatively stable until 2003, but since then have changed multiple times. In 2003, based on extensive research, FMCSA amended the HOS rules to include the following limits:...

hours of drive tume per day and 15 hours of total on-duty time following 8 hours off. These regulations remained relatively stable until 2003, but since then have changed multiple times. In 2003, based on extensive research, FMCSA amended the HOS rules to include the following limits: « 10 hours of mandatory rest time between work shifts; * No more driving (but other work ts allowed) following the 14th consecutive hour after reporting for work (thus putting drivers on a normal 24-hour circadian rhythm); « No more than 11 hours of driving per shift; and - The option to restart calculation of cumulative on-duty time by taking 34 consecutive hours off duty. Following litigation over the new rules, more changes were published in 2011, including: e A required 30-minute off-duty break every 8 hours; and - A provision allowing maximum fines for anyone who drives more than 3 hours past the 11-hour limit, which ts considered an “egregious violation. Rules for electronic logging devices (ELDs) were published in 2015, as discussed below. On September 29, 2020, FMCSA enacted additional changes to its HOS rules to add flexibility for drivers. These changes: « Extended the radius to 150 air miles and on-duty time to 14 hours for CDL drivers operating under the short-haul logging exception (395.1(e)(1)); - Allow up to an additional two hours of on-duty and driving time when drivers encounter adverse conditions (395.1(b)); « Allow drivers to take their 30-minute mandatory break as on-duty time rather than off duty, and count only driving time toward the 8-hour limit (395.3); and « Added flexibility to the “split sleeper” option, allowing drivers to combine a 7-hour sleeper-berth period with another break of 3 hours to get a valid 10-hour break (versus the previous require- ment for an &/2 split) (395.1(g)). a5.