34 Hour Reset: Your Ultimate Guide
What is the 34 Hour Reset and Why is it Important? As a truck driver or fleet owner, understanding the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations for the 34 hour reset can be very helpful. The FMCSA has specific limitations regarding how drivers can use the 34 hour reset to comply with maximum limits on…
Short Haul Exemption: Ultimate Guide
What is the Short Haul Exemption? The FMCSA hours of service (HOS) short-haul exemption allows certain commercial drivers to be exempt from some of the HOS rules that apply to long-haul truckers. The most important relief being that these drivers don’t have to log their hours of service with an Electronic Logging Device (ELD ). These…
Adverse Driving Conditions (Ultimate Guide)
What is the FMCSA adverse driving conditions exception? The adverse conditions exception to the standard Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) hours of service regulations refers to a regulatory provision that allows commercial truck drivers to exceed the maximum number of hours they can drive in a day by up to 2 hours under certain road…
Personal Conveyance: Ultimate Guide
Personal conveyance is when a truck driver uses their truck for personal purposes when they are not “on-duty”. According to FMCSA, personal conveyance is “the movement of a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) for personal use while off-duty that does not benefit the company financially.” While the statement may sound simple, navigating the requirements may be…
What are HOS Supporting Documents?
HOS Supporting Documents are the documents that drivers “create” through their normal course of operations that can be used to verify a driver’s HOS (Hours of Service) records. These are really important because FMCSA regulations require trucking companies to keep these so that investigators can verify a driver’s HOS records of duty status (RODS) during…
New Hours of Service Rules
New Hours of Service rules became effective on the 29th of September, 2020. These changes were introduced by the FMCSA to help provide commercial drivers with additional hours of service flexibility as they struggled with the adoption of ELDs. Two of the most important are changes to the adverse driving conditions exception and additional options…
Hours of Service Changes Coming Soon
New Hours of service rules are going to take effect on September the 29th, 2020. Are you prepared to take advantage of these new HOS regulations? Keep reading to find out! Generally speaking, these changes appear to be pretty positive from a safety perspective as they should provide drivers additional flexibility in complying with the…
AOBRD vs. ELD, What’s The Difference?
AOBRD vs. ELD, what’s the difference? That’s a question that many of our clients and prospects have asked us recently now that ELD D-Day is here! Hopefully, that is as anti-climatic for you as it is for almost everyone else in the industry. As you’ll see, there isn’t much difference between an AOBRD and an ELD.…
New FMCSA Hours of Service Changes
The FMCSA has finally released the long anticipated proposed changes to the Hours of Service regulations! These changes were effective on September 29, 2020. These proposed regulatory changes appear to be wonderful and should provide much needed relief to truckers who are still struggling to manage in a world of ELD (Electronic Logging Devices). A…
Truck Parking Search Costs Drivers $5k Year
Truck parking and Hours of Service issues took 3 of the top 4 spots in the 2016 annual list of industry concerns. A recently released study of the issues at hand adds a bit more clarity to the situation. Due to industry regulations, truck drivers only have about 12.5 hours of available time to drive…