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Using the 100 Air-Mile Radius Exemption | DOT / CSA Insights: Success Ahead
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.
All drivers are required to make a Record of Duty Status (RODS), or a log, or log sheet of their activity (or status) during each 24-hour period. About half of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operation are local or under 50 miles of their origin. Under 395.1(e) Short-haul operations, a CDL driver is exempt from the logbook requirements (but not any other of the Hours-of-Service rules — the 11-14-60/70 hour rules). Specifically, the exemption allows simplification of the paperwork form of Hours-of-Service documentation, for short-haul operations:
(B) A passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle driver does not exceed 10 hours maximum driving time following 8 consecutive hours off. A CDL short-haul driver can use the above exemption for any of “the three overs,” if he goes:
1. Over a 100 air-mile radius;
2. Over 12 hours from the start of work or the shift;
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.
Non-CDL drivers have some other rules under Under 395.1(e):
(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?
Short-haul property-carrying CMV drivers are not required to take the mandatory 30-minute break within eight hours of starting work. Drivers exceeding the distance or time limits that qualify them as short haul drivers, however, are subject to complying with the break requirement:
Question 33. If a driver using either
short-haul exception in § 395.1(e) finds
it necessary to exceed the exception
limitations for unforeseen reasons, is the
driver in violation of the § 395.3 rest
break provision if more than 8 hours
have passed without having taken the
required rest break?
Guidance. No. A driver using a
§ 395.1(e) short-haul exception who
finds it necessary to exceed the
exception limitations for unforeseen
reasons, is not in violation of the § 395.3
rest-break requirements if 8 or more
hours have passed at the time the driver
becomes aware of the inability to use
the short-haul exception. The driver
should annotate the record-of-duty-
status to indicate why the required rest
break was not taken earlier, and should
take the break at the earliest safe
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.
Hours-of-service rules, if certain provisions are met, allow the use of an exemption sheet (sometimes called a time card), in lieu of a RODS or log sheet. If a driver goes over that 12-hour period for one day, over 100 or 150 air-miles or does not return to his normal work reporting location, then the driver:
(1) needs to make and attach a RODS or log sheet for the respective day or days the provisions are not met;
(2) take the mandatory 30-minute break at the earliest safe opportunity; and
(3) annotate the record-of-duty- status to indicate why the rest break was not taken earlier.
See part380.com for specific Hours of Service guides and information.
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