Local Driver 100 air mile radius requirements

You don't have to have anything in your possession. All that is needed is your terminal has to keep a time card for you. Now, if you hit the 12th hour, a log is required.

 

Correct, plus you have to start and end at the same place (which doesn't necessarily have to be a terminal; if you take your truck home and start and end at home that is fine); so also make a log for any day that something happens and you don't end where you started, like a breakdown and hotel stay, etc. Turn the log in and the boss should attach any logs to that week's time card. That's how we did it and when audited, the FMCSA Auditor said we were doing it correctly, and we didn't have to have the driver's keep anything (HOS wise) with them except for their copy of any log they turned in that week. If you are 100 air mile; the LEO's in the area will know it. They know the "local" operating companies. Plus, if you are in a day cab that will be another good indication. Good question, though. It does seem logical that they'd want something in the driver's possession to show 100 air mile driver but they really don't.

 

Connecticut dot says if you cross a state line you need a logbook. I live close to the state line and cross it all the time. When I first started driving I got pulled over coming back into Connecticut cop ask for log book i said I am within 100 miles from my start and ending point. He told me if I cross state line I need a log book. So now I keep one and if I stay within the 100 miles I just Local P and D and they haven't said anything since. I am a company of one I own the truck I am driver I am the boss I keep all the paper work. I had a almost full log book and she wrote me up for having more than 14 days of white copies. I told her at the end of the month plus 7 days I take the whole log book and put it my file she said "you can't do that you have to rip out the whites and turn them in". I ask turn them into who? She said "who ever keeps track of them." I said " that is me is me." She said " you not supposed to keep more that fourteen days in the truck."

 

We actually have "Drivers Daily Workbooks" that our office furnishes the driver. It has lines where you can enter each load you haul, from where, to where,what it was, etc. Ironically, it doesn't have anywhere to list your start/stop location. It also has a carbonless copy that we turn into the office, while I keep 3 months + worth of logs with me JIC, but I've never been asked for them. And I haul dedicated OS/OW loads on a RGN, so they tend to stop me quite a bit....

 

State lines have nothing to do with the 100 air-mile radius exemption. If you never cross a state line, you are an INTRA-state operation, and the FMCSA regulations don't typically apply. The 100 air-mile exemption is a federal regulation, and applies to INTER-state motor carriers...which involves crossing state lines. I typically cover 3-4 states, but remain inside the 100 air-mile radius...so no log book is needed so long as I don't work more than 12 hours, I start & stop my day at the same location, stay inside that 100 air-mile radius, and the company maintains a record of my hours worked. Not required to carry anything in the truck stating that, but you'd better know the regulation & requirements because some cops just have a hard time believing you aren't required to have a log book.

 

I've done this in the past and when stopped, told the officer I punch a time clock at the office. 12 hour shift, start and end at terminal, typically no more than 45 miles at most from terminal. Most don't press you too much beyond that point, though if you're driving a sleeper they get suspicious.

 

This statement is not entirely accurate. The rules you operate under are determined by the freight that you haul. If you haul interstate freight, even if you don't cross state lines with it, you are subject to the FMCSA regulations. I just left a job where I shuttled product from a cardboard plant to a warehouse 2 miles away. From the warehouse, the product would be shipped out of state. Even though I only went 2 miles within the city limits of Richmond, VA, I was still considered an interstate truck driver due to the freight.