Description
As a professional in the trucking industry, it is important to understand the FMCSA Hours-of-Service Regulations and how they apply to you. These rules can become very complicated for drivers to understand as they include many restrictions and exceptions, which makes them that much more important to understand.
Topics Include:
- Basics
- The Definition of a Commercial Motor Vehicle or CMV
- The Purpose of Hours of Service
- On-Duty Time
- Off-Duty Time
- The different types of clocks or rules you will need to follow
- 14-Hour Clock
- 11-Hour Clock
- 30-minute Break
- 34-Hour Reset
- 60/70 Hour Limit
- Hours of Service: Record Keeping
- Understand the purpose of Hours of Service
- Understand the application of Manual Logs
- Properly track Hours of Service with an ELD
- Understand what supporting documents are viable for proper record-keeping
- Determine unidentified records
- Hours of Service: Driver and Carrier Violations
- The Definition of a Commercial Motor Vehicle or CMV
- The Purpose of Hours of Service
- The Effects of Violations on a Driver
- How to Respond to Coercion
- Hours of Service: Agriculture Exception
- How this exception affects the carrier’s hours on duty
- What commodities are designated as “agricultural commodities”
- How to determine the air-mile radius that this exception is viable in
- Hours of Service: Exceptions
- The Definition of a Commercial Motor Vehicle or CMV
- The Purpose of Hours of Service
- Personal Conveyance
- Sleeper Berth




