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Under the “100 air-mile radius exemption,” the rule states that the driver must be out and back within a 12-hour period. What if a driver goes over that 12-hour period for one day? J.E.
3. Stays Over-night, or away from his starting location.
#3. Drivers must leave and return to the same work reporting location to qualify for the exception. If not, they should have log sheets for the day they left, and any day(s) they have not returned to their regular reporting/starting place of work. Note: some states (i.e., Texas), have what is called “tolerance” to the Hours-of-Service rules and may allow a 150 air-miles radius, or a longer work-day, for local, short-haul, or in-state operations.
DOT Interpretation & Guidance: Question 20: When a driver fails to meet the provisions of the 100 air-mile radius exemption (section 395.1(e)), is the driver required to have copies of his/her records of duty status for the previous seven days? Must the driver prepare daily records of duty status for the next seven days?
Answer: The driver must only have in his/her possession a record of duty status for the day he/she does not qualify for the exemption. The record of duty status must cover the entire day, even if the driver has to record retroactively changes in status that occurred between the time that the driver reported for duty and the time in which he/she no longer qualified for the 100 air-mile radius exemption. This is the only way to ensure that a driver does not claim the right to drive 10 hours after leaving his/her exempt status, in addition to the hours already driven under the 100 air-mile exemption.
(2) Operators of property-carrying commercial motor vehicles not requiring a commercial driver’s license. Except as provided in this paragraph, a driver is exempt from the requirements of §395.3(a)(2) and §395.8 and ineligible to use the provisions of §395.1(e)(1), (g), and (o) if:(i) The driver operates a property-carrying commercial motor vehicle for which a commercial driver’s license is not required under part 383 of this subchapter;(ii) The driver operates within a 150 air-mile radius of the location where the driver reports to and is released from work, i.e., the normal work reporting location;(iii) The driver returns to the normal work reporting location at the end of each duty tour;(iv) The driver does not drive:(A) After the 14th hour after coming on duty on 5 days of any period of 7 consecutive days; and(B) After the 16th hour after coming on duty on 2 days of any period of 7 consecutive days;(v) The motor carrier that employs the driver maintains and retains for a period of 6 months accurate and true time records showing:(A) The time the driver reports for duty each day;(B) The total number of hours the driver is on duty each day;(C) The time the driver is released from duty each day;(D) The total time for the preceding 7 days in accordance with § 395.8(j)(2) for drivers used for the first time or intermittently.
What is required on the exemption sheet form?
(D) The total time for the preceding 7 days in accordance with §395.8(j)(2) for drivers used for the first time or intermittently.
Issued on: December 12, 2013.
If a driver is claiming the short haul exemption, is there any type of documentation required in the vehicle?
No, the driver only has to say to the inspector is that he is claiming the short haul exemption.
(3) annotate the record-of-duty- status to indicate why the rest break was not taken earlier.
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Rumormill: About a Homeland Security Survey?
Q. One of my driver’s had a question, based on information given him by a doctor or nurse in one of those medical facilities at Pilot: If a driver does not complete a survey from Homeland Security, would they have their CDL status dropped?
New Medical Certification requirements as of January 30, 2012 (no later than January 30, 2014) require that all CDL drivers need to provide information to their State Driver Licensing Agency (SDLA) regarding the type of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operation they drive in or expect to drive. CDL drivers who are required to have a ”certified” medical status, and fail to provide and/or keep their medical examiner’s certificate current with their SDLA will become ”not-certified” and may lose their CDL. Commercial Learner’s Permit (CLP) holders became subject to the same requirement as CDL drivers (that a medical examiner’s certificate be provided to the SDLAs so that this information will be available on record for CLP holders), beginning on July 8, 2015.
Most states are compliant with this new rule (RIN: 2126–AB71). Compliance Check: If you run the driver’s MVR, you should see the required information on the MVR report. As of a January 14, 2014 modification, CDL drivers are required to carry their paper medical certificate until January 30, 2015. Carriers and organizations should retain a copy for the driver’s qualification file.
§ 391.41 Physical qualifications for drivers.
(2) CDL/CLP exception. (i) Beginning January 30, 2015, a driver required to have a commercial driver’s license under part 383 of this chapter, and who submitted a current medical examiner’s certificate to the State in accordance with § 383.71(h) of this chapter documenting that he or she meets the physical qualification requirements of this part, no longer needs to carry on his or her person the medical examiner’s certificate specified at § 391.43(h), or a copy for more than 15 days after the date it was issued as valid proof of medical certification.
(ii) Beginning July 8, 2015, a driver required to have a commercial learner’s permit under part 383 of this chapter, and who submitted a current medical examiner’s certificate to the State in accordance with § 383.71(h) of this chapter documenting that he or she meets the physical qualification requirements of this part, no longer needs to carry on his or her person the medical examiner’s certificate specified at § 391.43(h), or a copy for more than 15 days after the date it was issued as valid proof of medical certification.
(iii) A CDL or CLP holder required by § 383.71(h) of this chapter to obtain a medical examiner’s certificate, who obtained such by virtue of having obtained a medical variance from FMCSA, must continue to have in his or her possession the original or copy of that medical variance documentation at all times when on-duty.
§ 391.51 General requirements for driver qualification files.
(ii) Exception. For CDL holders, beginning January 30, 2012, if the CDLIS motor vehicle record contains medical certification status information, the motor carrier employer must meet this requirement by obtaining the CDLIS motor vehicle record defined at § 384.105 of this chapter. That record must be obtained from the current licensing State and placed in the driver qualification file. After January 30, 2015, a non-excepted, interstate CDL or CLP holder without medical certification status information on the CDLIS motor vehicle record is designated “not-certified” to operate a CMV in interstate commerce. After January 30, 2015, a motor carrier may use a copy of the driver’s current medical examiner’s certificate that was submitted to the State for up to 15 days from the date it was issued as proof of medical certification.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: January 8, 2014.
How does “Homeland Security” fit into this?
In some states Homeland Security may be part of the licensing bureau or DMV. For example, in Tennessee, the State Driver Licensing Agency (SDLA) is called the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS). TDOSHS will be adding CDL driver’s medical certification status and the information from Tennessee drivers’ medical certificates to the federal Commercial Driver’s License System (CDLIS) record.
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