Tag: 30-minute break

Hours of Service

Stress relief the hours proposal stands to deliver

NASTC’s David Owen on the hours of service proposal: “What the unnecessary ELD mandate has required is a closer look at the HOS and relief from the odious stress and pressures created by the current rule. I feel if the ‘advocates’ were true advocates for safer highways, they would see and appreciate this.”

October 11, 2019

Business

Concrete pumpers get five-year extension of 30-minute break relief

The exemption allows all concrete pump operators, concrete pumping companies and drivers who operate concrete pumps in interstate commerce to count on-duty time while attending equipment but performing no other work-related functions toward their 30-minute break.

October 10, 2019

Business

FMCSA grants HOS relief to truckers hauling food, water for firefighters responding to disasters

The drivers can extend their on-duty time from 14 hours to 16 hours, while still driving a maximum of 11 hours in a day. They can also use on-duty, not-driving time to satisfy the 30-minute break requirement under the terms of the exemption.

October 1, 2019

Business

Grocery delivery fleet gets 30-minute break flexibility

Transco’s team drivers in its grocery division who make wholesale deliveries to grocery and convenience stores will be allowed to use on-duty non-driving time to satisfy the 30-minute break requirement.

August 27, 2019

Hours of Service

Drivers press for cumulative 30-minute break in first HOS listening session

Kicking off the formal comment period for FMCSA’s proposal to enact hours of service reforms, owner-operators and other stakeholders took the mic before FMCSA’s top decision makers at a public listening session Friday at the Great American Trucking Show.

August 23, 2019

Hours of Service

DOT funding bill would force 30-minute break to remain in hours regs

In what could become a clash between lawmakers in the U.S. House and a Department of Transportation aiming to propose an overhaul to drivers’ hours of service regulations, a working version of the annual Transportation Department funding bill released by the House’s Appropriations Committee last week would bar the DOT from eliminating the 30-minute break requirement of current hours regs.

May 28, 2019

Business

Concrete pavers get 30-minute break, short-haul exemption relief

Concrete haulers see relief from the 30-minute break requirement and the 12-hour rule in the short-haul exemption with the ACPA. Details on Overdrive.

February 5, 2019

Business

Mobile crane operators get 30-minute break exemption extended

The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association has held the exemption since October 2016 for carriers and drivers operating mobile cranes with a rated lifting capacity of more than 30 tons. The exemption applies to approximately 65,000 mobile crane operators.

November 29, 2018

Business

Concrete pavers group seeks relief from 30-minute break, 12-hour short-haul limit

ACPA says two similar organizations have already been granted exemptions from the 30-minute break provision and an exemption from the 12-hour short-haul limit.

September 7, 2018

Channel 19

Hopeful and careful-what-you-wish-for dynamics in reader commentary in wake of FMCSA’s hours moves

Everybody's favorite subject of debate -- the hours of service rule -- has engendered plenty among Overdrive's mostly owner-operator readers.

September 4, 2018

Overdrive Radio

HOS reform: Now’s the time to comment, says Martinez, who hopes to ‘fast track’ potential rulemaking

FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez expresses FMCSA's wish to move swiftly through HOS rulemaking process. Get the details on Overdrive.

August 24, 2018

Hours of Service

FMCSA wants feedback on hours of service reforms around 14-hour rule, split sleeper, 30-minute break

The FMCSA needs feedback pertaining to extending drivers' 14-hour daily limit, split sleeper, 30-minute break requirement, and short-haul drivers' hours.

August 21, 2018