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SAFETY series Know your HOS Mandates require drivers to use ELDs to track hours of service BY CLIFF ABBOTT / CONTRIBUTING WRITER Love ’em or hate ’em, electronic logging devices (ELDs) are here to stay for the majority of drivers of commercial vehicles. Once ELDs became mandatory (for most drivers) in December 2017, tracking and reporting of drivers’ hours of service (HOS) was changed forever. Those changes began in the U.S. Legislature with the passage of a 2012 transportation funding bill known as Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, or MAP-21. A portion of that bill was the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act, which mandated the ELD rule. As directed, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued the final rule in December 2015, and the rule was fully enacted four years later. Drivers are still required to fill out paper logs if their ELD system isn’t working or when driving vehicles that aren’t ELD equipped, or if they have ELD systems that can’t accept data from the system in a previously driven truck. There is a limit of eight days of operation unless the truck or the work is exempted. Another issue is that drivers can come to depend on warnings and alerts from the ELD rather than mentally tracking their hours. Those drivers may need a refresher on the hours-of-service rules when paper logs are used. The basics haven’t changed much in a decade or more. Drivers of property-carrying vehicles can’t drive after 11 hours of driving or after 14 hours of combined driving and working (on-duty, not driving). There are exceptions to both rules, such as additional time allowed if the driver encounters adverse driving conditions that could not have been reasonably known at the beginning of the shift or trip. The driver must take a 30-minute break before or at the eight-hour driving mark. Thanks to a September 2020 change to the rule, the break can be used for non-driving activities such as fueling or inspections, as long as no driving is done. Before this change, the driver had to log off-duty, sleeper berth or a combination of the two for the break. Drivers can’t drive after 60 hours of driving or working in a seven-day period, or after 70-hours in an eight-day period. The 70-hour rule is typically used for trucking operations that run seven days a week, while the 60-hour rule is used by operations that regularly shut down on specific days each week, such as weekends. When the limits are reached, drivers must Takeaway Hours-of-service rules do not prohibit working beyond the set limits; they prohibit actual driving (time behind the wheel) until the minimum rest requirements are met 8 THE TRUCKER JOBS MAGAZINE | AUGUST 2022 WWW.THETRUCKERJOBS.COM
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