Tag: short haul exemption

Hours of Service

Short-haul carrier asks FMCSA to expand short-haul exemption radius to 150 air miles

Palmetto State Armory says its drivers pick up and deliver products between manufacturing facilities and drive to PSA retail stores. The company states current operations include trips between 103 and 109 air miles. PSA says using ELDs or keeping logs “adds substantial costs to its operation and does not increase the level of safety.”

November 14, 2019

Business

Machinery transport, repair group petitions for hours extension for short-haul drivers

Kentucky Equipment Distributors, which is made up of seven large machinery distributors operating in several states, is requesting that its short-haul drivers be allowed to return to their work-reporting location after 14 hours instead of 12 hours.

October 23, 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

Short-haul concrete pumpers get waiver to work 14-hour day

The American Concrete Pumping Association says allowing concrete pumpers to return to their work-reporting location within 14 hours instead of 12 hours harmonizes hours of service rules for concrete pump drivers with the rules for drivers of the trucks that supply the concrete.

October 31, 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

Business

Beverage hauler seeks waiver to extend hours of short-haul logging exemption

Allied Beverage Group wants their drivers be allowed to report back to their work-reporting location within 14 consecutive hours without losing their short-haul exemption.

August 6, 2018

Business

Concrete pump operators file petition for hours reprieve

If the FMCSA approves the ACPA's request, concrete pump operators will be treated the same as ready-mixed concrete truck drivers. Get the details on Overdrive.

June 20, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

American Road and Transportation Builders support ELD exemption, stress 14-hour-rule issues as well

ARTBA’s support for the Pipe Line Contractors’ request for an ELD exemption re-stressed the largely short-haul construction operators’ long support for an exemption from the hours rules entirely for transportation construction companies.

August 15, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL update: What’s your most likely response to the ELD mandate?

With the principle legal challenge (OOIDA’s court battle) to the ELD mandate at an end, assuming the end-of-year enforcement deadline remains, what’s your current plan for dealing with the mandate? Weigh in in this poll.

June 29, 2017