N.D. oil field hours log

(d) Oilfield operations. (1) In the instance of drivers of commercial motor vehicles used exclusively in the transportation of oilfield equipment, including the stringing and picking up of pipe used in pipelines, and servicing of the field operations of the natural gas and oil industry, any period of 8 consecutive days may end with the beginning of any off-duty period of 24 or more successive hours.(2) In the case of specially trained drivers of commercial motor vehicles that are specially constructed to service oil wells, on-duty time shall not include waiting time at a natural gas or oil well site. Such waiting time shall be recorded as "off duty" for purposes of §§395.8 and 395.15, with remarks or annotations to indicate the specific off-duty periods that are waiting time, or on a separate "waiting time" line on the record of duty status to show that off-duty time is also waiting time. Waiting time shall not be included in calculating the 14-hour period in §395.3(a)(2). Specially trained drivers of such commercial motor vehicles are not eligible to use the provisions of §395.1(e)(1).

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=395.1

 

FYI, just to let you know this does not apply to sand haulers.

 

Can't you also drive for 12 hours instead of 11 under the oilfield exemption rule?

 

no, but logging millage is almost never a issue, typically you really don't run that many miles. a average day for me is around 250-300 miles.

 

Depends on who you work for, last Co I worked for had exemption for 24hr reset & 3hr wait time / lunch & in bound crew rides could be on flagged but not counted, for them I never logged more than 8.5hr day as tickets didn't have to match logs so I could and did work everyday for weeks, that was 2010-11 when it was really booming out here.
My current Co logs must match tickets (dam) no 3hr wait time, crew rides have to be logged line 4, still 24hr reset, but we are allowed to have 1 x 16hr day in 1 70hr. So we have to be creative when we are busy (not so much these days)