New 11 hour limit

[Retired 2016]

The 30 minute lunch rule applies to all drivers. During that time you must be relieved of all of your duties. You can sit in your truck and eat your lunch. But the following things cannot be done: sort packages, use diad, take a message from dispatch, drive your truck to the ice cream parlor for dessert etc. Relieved of all duties means: as if you locked the truck and walked away for 30 minutes. The truck cannot be moved or used by the driver during those 30 minutes. Also if you take your lunch at the beginning of the 3rd hour you will need another 30 minute period 7.5 hours later at your 10.5 hour mark.

This rule is designed to keep the driver fresh and let him refocus.

 

[104Feeder]

Here's a great FAQ

And before anyone gets confused by B(3) it's because your first day would drop off and on your 8th day your first day would drop off giving you those hours available to work (say you start at 1830 on Monday, 30 min meal before Midnight, and work till 0500 the next 6 nights, then take Sunday night off. Those 5 hours would be available Monday night again because the rolling 7 days your last day drops off, not necessitating the need for a restart.

Questions & Answers – HOS Final Rule (December 2011) for CMV Drivers - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

 

[brownmonster]

The 30 minute lunch rule applies to all drivers. During that time you must be relieved of all of your duties. You can sit in your truck and eat your lunch. But the following things cannot be done: sort packages, use diad, take a message from dispatch, drive your truck to the ice cream parlor for dessert etc. Relieved of all duties means: as if you locked the truck and walked away for 30 minutes. The truck cannot be moved or used by the driver during those 30 minutes. Also if you take your lunch at the beginning of the 3rd hour you will need another 30 minute period 7.5 hours later at your 10.5 hour mark.

This rule is designed to keep the driver fresh and let him refocus.

Sounds pretty tough to enforce, especially sorting while chewing on a sandwich. Drivers wil simply put in lunch from 12 to 12:30 and keep on trucking.

 

[brownmonster]

Sounds pretty tough to enforce, especially sorting while chewing on a sandwich. Drivers wil simply put in lunch from 12 to 12:30 and keep on trucking.

Reading through the law, we are not required to record the break periods. Looks like an honesty thing. Wish the law had more teeth for package car drivers. I would love to see some of these guys forced to sit for half an hour.

 

[over9five]

Sounds pretty tough to enforce, especially sorting while chewing on a sandwich. Drivers wil simply put in lunch from 12 to 12:30 and keep on trucking.

So you're saying Package car drivers are unethical, and will knowingly break the law?

 

[bbsam]

Some will.

 

[MAKAVELI]

Some will.

Much less than so called " contractors".

 

[bbsam]

Much less than so called " contractors".

You sure do have a hardon for me and Ground, don't you?

 

[MAKAVELI]

Much less than so called " contractors".

You sure do have a hardon for me and Ground, don't you?

I don't know what's on your mind I mean you're the one talking about hard ons.

 

[bbsam]

I mean that you want so badly to be right, but you're wrong.

 

[iowa boy]

Reading through the law, we are not required to record the break periods. Looks like an honesty thing. Wish the law had more teeth for package car drivers. I would love to see some of these guys forced to sit for half an hour.

We don't have to write down our break as we don't have to carry or show a logbook, but we still have to show 30 min. of break. I have gotten texts from coworkers, (damn vacations get in the way), and they were told at the PCM that there can be no work shown in the diad, otherwise we can be subject to a fine from the DOT and 'discipline' of some sort from UPS if we show any deliveries or pickups.

 

[Dracula]

We don't have to write down our break as we don't have to carry or show a logbook, but we still have to show 30 min. of break. I have gotten texts from coworkers, (damn vacations get in the way), and they were told at the PCM that there can be no work shown in the diad, otherwise we can be subject to a fine from the DOT and 'discipline' of some sort from UPS if we show any deliveries or pickups.

You're in package car?

 

[iowa boy]

You're in package car?

yes...last time I checked. But have been on vacation so I havn't been officially informed of any of this yet. As I said in a previous post, what I have been told so far is via text messages from certain coworkers.