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DOT 60 hour rule? 70 hours for FedEx?
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<blockquote data-quote="hondo" data-source="post: 905301" data-attributes="member: 8661"><p>As Brett636 said, the current rule is 60 hours <u>on-duty</u> (not driving) in 7 days <strong><u>OR</u></strong> 70 hours <u>on-duty</u> (not driving) in 8 days, The carrier decides which schedule its drivers will fall under. Apparently FedEx uses the 70hrs/8days schedule. It is perfectly legal for them to do so. They can do this because the 8 day period resets every time the driver is off duty 34 hours consecutively. To illustrate: let's say Fred the FedEx driver works Monday through Saturday, starts at 7 AM every day. As long as Fred is off duty by 9 PM Saturday night, 34 hours of off duty time will elapse by 7 AM Monday, resetting the 8 day time period.</p><p>With respect to '11 hours driving', the key word is <strong><u>DRIVING</u></strong>. As a delivery truck driver, a significant portion of your workday is <u>not</u> driving on-road. Starting with your PCM, gathering supplies, pre-trip inspection, time spent making deliveries/pickups (the truck is parked/secured-you are not behind the wheel), breaks & lunch, refueling, post-trip inspection, unloading air/international/hazmat/high value packages, etc.</p><p>Also, there are many numerous 'loopholes', some or all of which exempt the carrier and driver from having to maintain a paper or automatic/electronic log of the actual hours driving time (buried somewhere in there might be the reason UPS has a '12 hour' rule).</p><p></p><p>I would refer anyone interested to the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, part 395: <a href="http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=a22a03c09a0e3b99d16a4a266e3f9ab6&rgn=div5&view=text&node=49:5.1.1.2.38&idno=49#PartTop" target="_blank">Electronic Code of Federal Regulations:</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hondo, post: 905301, member: 8661"] As Brett636 said, the current rule is 60 hours [U]on-duty[/U] (not driving) in 7 days [B][U]OR[/U][/B] 70 hours [U]on-duty[/U] (not driving) in 8 days, The carrier decides which schedule its drivers will fall under. Apparently FedEx uses the 70hrs/8days schedule. It is perfectly legal for them to do so. They can do this because the 8 day period resets every time the driver is off duty 34 hours consecutively. To illustrate: let's say Fred the FedEx driver works Monday through Saturday, starts at 7 AM every day. As long as Fred is off duty by 9 PM Saturday night, 34 hours of off duty time will elapse by 7 AM Monday, resetting the 8 day time period. With respect to '11 hours driving', the key word is [B][U]DRIVING[/U][/B]. As a delivery truck driver, a significant portion of your workday is [U]not[/U] driving on-road. Starting with your PCM, gathering supplies, pre-trip inspection, time spent making deliveries/pickups (the truck is parked/secured-you are not behind the wheel), breaks & lunch, refueling, post-trip inspection, unloading air/international/hazmat/high value packages, etc. Also, there are many numerous 'loopholes', some or all of which exempt the carrier and driver from having to maintain a paper or automatic/electronic log of the actual hours driving time (buried somewhere in there might be the reason UPS has a '12 hour' rule). I would refer anyone interested to the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49, part 395: [URL="http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=a22a03c09a0e3b99d16a4a266e3f9ab6&rgn=div5&view=text&node=49:5.1.1.2.38&idno=49#PartTop"]Electronic Code of Federal Regulations:[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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