Hours of Service

It is the responsibility of the driver to watch their own Hours of Service. If you are on your last leg of the day and you think you will not have enough hours to finish reach out to dispatch. You should be factoring in, end of day refueling, drive time from the last drop to the yard AND a post trip of AT LEAST 15 minutes. If you do not have time for all of those things then the last leg will need to be adjusted. Reach out to dispatch and let them know.

If, for some reason, dispatch is not answering or does not understand what you are saying, place a call to ROC to have the last leg changed to a bobtail due to HOS. Typically, we like dispatch to make these kinds of changes to trips BUT if it's a legitimate HOS concern then we want you to get that taken care of (in the event that dispatch can not). 

If dispatch is not helping you please take a screenshot of the conversation and send it to the Admin line so we can address it.

When the trips populate we can see if a trip is over planned or not. If it is, we can not make the changes to the tour until the driver reaches the leg that needs to be adjusted or removed. This is why we can not plan ahead like we would like. So you need to keep track of your own HOS in real-time.

 🚫 You can not use PC for an over-planned trip. 

🚫 You can not use the 2-hour extension for an over-planned trip or even light traffic. The 2-hour extension is ONLY for emergency situations.

Being kept on-site past departure time:

If you are on the last stop and you are facing an HOS issue you can not wait past departure time ever. If it is an empty you can not wait past departure time. However, if you are in the beginning or middle of your tour waiting on a loaded trailer and you have plenty of HOS... and the next leg is an empty, we would advise you wait for that trailer as long as it will be ready in a reasonable amount of time. This is something you need to communicate with dispatch on. At the end of the tour, if HOS becomes an issue we just bobtail you back to the yard. You might have to wait 10-15 minutes past departure time for the loaded trailer. This will not extend your day and the delay to the next stop would be under "delayed loading" from the previous stop.

Please review the FMCSA HOS Rules and Regulations by CLICKING HERE.

⏰ Hours of Service Review ⏰ 

11-Hour Driving Limit

May drive a maximum of 11 hours after 10 consecutive hours off duty.

14-Hour Limit

May not drive beyond the 14th consecutive hour after coming on duty, following 10 consecutive hours off duty. Off-duty time does not extend the 14-hour period.

30-Minute Driving Break

Drivers must take a 30-minute break when they have driven for a period of 8 cumulative hours without at least a 30-minute interruption. The break may be satisfied by any non-driving period of 30 consecutive minutes (i.e., on-duty not driving, off-duty, sleeper berth, or any combination of these taken consecutively).

60/70-Hour Limit

May not drive after 60/70 hours on duty in 7/8 consecutive days. A driver may restart a 7/8 consecutive day period after taking 34 or more consecutive hours off duty.

Sleeper Berth Provision

Drivers may split their required 10-hour off-duty period, as long as one off-duty period (whether in or out of the sleeper berth) is at least 2 hours long and the other involves at least 7 consecutive hours spent in the sleeper berth. All sleeper berth pairings MUST add up to at least 10 hours. When used together, neither time period counts against the maximum 14- hour driving window.

⛈️Adverse Driving Conditions🚧 

Drivers are allowed to extend the 11-hour maximum driving limit and 14-hour driving window by up to 2 hours when adverse driving conditions are encountered.

The use of personal conveyance is not allowed unless you are given permission from Kristin Wallace or Ashley Perone. Personal conveyance is the movement of a commercial motor vehicle for personal use while off-duty. Not having enough time to get back to the yard at the end of a shift is not a reason to use PC. We need to avoid these situations all together by watching HOS and communicating with dispatch.

We understand that situations just happen and sometimes as hard as we try, we can’t prevent them. In a case like this you are to contact dispatch and then use the 2 hour exemption. If you do not know how to switch your logs to the 2 hour exemption please contact dispatch.

You may only use this exemption ONCE in a 60 hour cycle. If you use it, you need a full 34 hour reset in order to use it again.

Below are the three options Relay gives you.

16 Hour Shift

Extends drivers overall on duty time from 14 to 16.

Adverse Driving Conditions

Drivers are allowed to extend the 11-hour maximum driving limit and 14-hour driving window by up to 2 hours when adverse driving conditions are encountered.

🆘 Emergency Conditions ONLY 🆘

Prevents all HOS violations during this shift. This basically never happens. This would be a life-altering event happening in our area.

A sleeper trip is the ONLY block we are allowing the use of Personal conveyance on. PC can only be used AFTER you are released of ALL your duties for that shift. After you have arrived at a sleep location and you need to run and grab food, do not go on duty just go into PC. But you can never be hooked to a trailer!

When you are on a trip and you realize that you will not have enough time to finish your tour and get to a sleeping spot, notify dispatch right away. We need you to factor in time to get to a safe location to sleep. Dispatch will look at the trip and make the appropriate arrangements with ROC. IF dispatch is unable to help you for any reason, request a call back from ROC and get that leg modified (only legitimate HOS concerns) .

Failure to watch HOS may result in fines!  (Avg. Driver fines over 2022)

NO 30 Minute break - $1270.00 

Over 14 hours on duty or 11 hours driving-  $7,322.00

60/70 hours in a 7/8- $4,787.00

Falsifying records -$14,960.00

CDL Violation -$6,755

Failing to maintain a log - $13,885.00

⚠️Certifying Logs⚠️ 

Log books should be certified every 24 hours. We had a driver get pulled over for inspection and officer called out driver for not certifying logs from yesterday even though the driver didn't work yesterday. Best practice according to most officer is to make sure you certify your logs at daily, at either the beginning or end of each shift.

Every 24 hours, a driver must certify their logbook. When logging into the ELD, you will be prompted to certify any open logs. To Certify your logbook, you do the following:

Historical

Within the ELD feature click on “+” next to “View last 7 days”.

You will see a Certify icon next to any logbooks that require certification.

Tap the logbook you would like to certify.

Review the log, make any adjustments and tap on the Certify Logs button at the bottom of the screen.

Tap Agree to certify the logbook.

Tap the back arrow at the top of the Driving Log and repeat steps 3-5 as needed.

Current

Within the ELD feature tap on the arrow next to Today’s date.

Review the log and make any necessary changes.

Tap on the Certify Logs button at the bottom of the screen.

Tap Agree to certify the logbook.

Amazon Relay ELD Manual below. 

It is a good idea to read through this whole manual to familiarize yourself with it. This manual is also in the back of every company binder in the truck per requirements.