Bus drivers hos vs trucker drivers hos

One of my friends here in the Houston area does multiple round trips a day between a well site in College Station, TX to Houston. He averages 400-600 miles a day, depending on waiting time at the well site. That is certainly not what I would consider not going anywhere.

 

What is it you desire to change about the regulations? Make the HOS regulations for bus drivers mirror those that apply to a driver of a property carrying CMV or vice versa?

 

That's interesting......I guess money talks and the oil and gas industry probably lobbied hard for this exemption...The common truck driver doesn't have that representation. Below is a link to the oil and gas exemption we are talking about.


http://www.jjkeller.com/wcsstore/CV...ransport/2013/070113hos-oilfied-exemption.pdf

 

Are you just now figuring this out? Most of the regulations on the books are focused more on money and not protecting the safety of the motoring public.

 

Nope, I've known this for a long time...The poster posed the question as to why regulations for buses are not as stringent as those for commercial trucks.. Answer: Money and convenience. I'm sure the poster knew the answer to this as well....So why did he post the question? Conversation driver, that's what the forum is about.

 

the limit for a bus driver is 10 driving hours and 10 to 15 on duty hours. then a 10 hour break is required. the log books look the same, except line 2 is never used since most buses dont have a sleeper. a concert tour bus does have a sleeper, so i wonder if thats a dot approved sleeper area. anyone know?

 

Some long distance bus carriers use sleepers. Los Paisanos is one that does. As long as the sleeper has some sort of access to the passenger area it qualifies as a sleeper.

Team drivers with sleeper berths that were installed between the front axle amd cargo area have long been used in Mexico but many couldn't be used in the US because there was no direct access to the driver/passenger area which is a requirement


Some designs are built into the cargo area but have a small hatch to enter the passenger area even though most of the time the drivers enter and exit through the side doors.

Other designs use a sleeper built into where some of the seats would be, usually the opposite of the bathroom.

Another one I saw was built into the area directly behind the bathroom about the size of those tiny sleepers Kenworth and Freightliner offer.