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Hours of Service Training: Limits
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Overview:
Time is limited. No one can add a minute to an hour, day, or week. For professional drivers, time is further limited by the hours-of-service regulations. After many hours behind the wheel, fatigue sets in, and it can lead to bad decisions and deadly crashes. The purpose of the hours of service regulations is to keep tired drivers off the road. For the safety of all drivers, compliance with the hours of service regulations has been required of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers since the 1930s.
The Hours of Service Driver Training curriculum will help drivers and carriers to be compliant while maximizing the available hours through a full understanding of how the limits affect safety and productivity.
The hours-of-service rules don't limit how much work a driver can do, but they do prevent drivers from driving once the limits are reached. There are limits that measure the total hours of on-duty or work time and when the driver's duty day begins. There are also limits that track how many hours of driving have occurred.
The four hours-of-service limits include:
- 14-hour (on-duty) limit,
- 11-hour (driving) limit,
- 60- and 70-hour (on-duty) limit, and
- Interruption of driving provision (8-hour driving limit)
There are also two rules ensuring drivers have enough off-duty or non-working time between cycles of work.
- Consecutive 10-hours off-duty before starting a new on-duty period that will include driving, and
- Consecutive 30-minute interruption of driving requirement.
The limits, rules, or "clocks" as they are referred to, track either a consecutive or a cumulative period of time. The terms limits, rules, and clocks are used interchangeably depending on who you're talking to, but they all mean the same thing. A consecutive clock doesn't stop and start. It's like a timer for a race, the clock keeps ticking until the last racer is finished. A cumulative clock on the other hand can start and stop numerous times because it's timing a specific activity, not how long ago since the activity started. A football game clock is a good example of a cumulative clock. It allows exactly one hour of game time, although that time may be spread out over the course of several hours.
When your livelihood depends on driving a commercial vehicle, it's best to know when you can't. Drivers need to understand how all the limits or clocks work together, so they aren't operating a commercial vehicle when they are fatigued.
Hours of Service Training: Limits is designed to help drivers avoid operating a commercial motor vehicle when fatigued and comply with the hours-of-service limits by ensuring they understand how each of the limits or clocks work together. It will also help them to know when to take a break and when to rest to restart their hours.
Objectives:
After completing this program, learners will be able to:
- Recognize how fatigue requires drivers to stop driving even if they have hours left to legally operate
- Identify off-duty activities that qualify as a 10-hour break
- Describe how the 14-hour limit is calculated
- Identify which duty status the 11-hour limit tracks
- Determine when to use the 60- or 70-hour limit
- Identify an exception which resets the 60- or 70-hour limit
- Explain how to satisfy the 30-minute break required under the interruption of driving provision
- Differentiate between cumulative and consecutive limits
Outline
The J. J. Keller Hours of Service Training: Limits program covers the following topics:
Ill or Fatigued Operator
- Types and Causes of Fatigue
- Regulations Prohibit Fatigued Operation
- The Driver Is the Captain
- The Carrier Should Know When Fatigue is Likely
10-Hour Clock (Off-Duty)
- What Is the 10-Hour Clock?
14-Hour (On-Duty) Limit
- What Is the 14-Hour Limit?
- Time Used and Time Available
11-Hour (Driving) Limit
- What Is the 11-Hour Limit?
- Time Used and Time Available
60- and 70-Hour (On-Duty) Limit
- What Is the 60- and 70-Hour Limit?
- Time Used and Time Available
Interruption of Driving
- What Is Interruption of Driving?
- Time Used and Time Available
- Exceptions
34-Hour Restart
- What Is the 34-Hour Restart?
- Restarts are not Mandatory
Regulations Covered: 49 CFR Part 395
Copyright Date: 2020