Check out the actual rules as stands, and you tell me if this is not sufficient?
As quoted from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin:
Property-Carrying CMV drivers may not drive:
* More than 11 hours, following 10 hours off-duty.
* Beyond the 14th hour after coming on-duty, following 10 hours off-duty.
* After 60/70 hours on-duty in 7/8 consecutive days. - A driver may restart a 7/8 consecutive day period after taking 34 or more consecutive hours off duty
Simply stated, this means:
Drivers may drive up to 11 hours instead of 10 hours, but are limited to 14 hours in a duty period.
The 14-hour duty period may not be extended with off-duty time for meal and fuel stops, etc. Only the use of a sleeper berth can extend the 14-hour on-duty period.
Each duty period must begin with at least ten hours off-duty, rather than eight.
The 60 hours on-duty in 7 consecutive days, or 70 hours onduty in 8 consecutive days, remains the same, but drivers can restart the 7/8-day period by taking at least 34 consecutive hours off-duty.
16 - Hour Exception for Property-Carrying Drivers
Drivers may extend the 14 - hour on duty period by 2 hours if they :
Are released from duty at the normal work reporting location for the previous 5 duty tours AND ,
Return to the normal work reporting location and are released from work within 16 hours AND, ,
Have not used this exception within the last 6 days, except following a 34 - hour restart of a 7/8 day period.
Sleeper Berth Exception : Drivers may split on-duty time by using sleeper berth periods, but must comply with the new hours-of-service rules. These drivers may accumulate the equivalent of 10 consecutive hours off-duty by taking 2 periods of rest in the sleeper berth, provided:
1. Neither period is less than 2 hours;
2. Driving time in the period immediately before and after each rest period when added together does not exceed 11 hours; and
3. The driver does not drive after the 14th hour after coming on duty following 10 hours off-duty, where the 14th hour is calculated by:
(A) Excluding any sleeper berth period of at least 2 hours which, when added to a subsequent sleeper berth period, totals at least 10 hours; and
(B) Including all on-duty time, all off-duty time not spent in the sleeper berth, all sleeper berth periods of less than 2 hours, and any sleeper berth period not described in paragraph 3(A).
Industry Exceptions: Oil field operations, ground water well drilling operations, construction materials and equipment operations, and utility service vehicle operations must comply with the new 11-hour driving, 10 consecutive hours off-duty, and 14-hours on-duty requirements of the new rule. However, the 24-hour restart provisions applicable to these operations remains in effect.
Agricultural Exemption: Agricultural operations retain their current statutory exemption from driving time requirements for transportation occurring within a 100 air-mile radius of a farm or distribution point during planting or harvesting season within each State, as determined by the State.
