This a friendly reminder of the regulations to follow regarding Personal Conveyance Status and Split Sleeper Berth Provision!
PERSONAL CONVEYANCE POLICY
You must notify your Driver Manager and note the reason in your ELD remarks when using Personal Conveyance
- If completely ran out of time getting loaded/unloaded, PC may be used to travel to the nearest reasonable safe location to obtain the required rest after loading or unloading
- Moving a CMV at the request of a safety official during the driver’s off-duty time.
- The truck is being used to go from a home terminal i.e. (Sullivan, Effingham, Decatur, Kankakee) to home or vice versa.
- Personal conveyance is permitted up to one hour of travel time from the terminal to home.
- You cannot use your truck for personal conveyance to go from your home to get a load at a customer.
SLEEPER BERTH PROVISION
The sleeper berth provision allows property-carrying drivers to split their 10-hour off-duty period when the following requirements are met:
- 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 in the sleeper berth
- Both periods added together must equal at least 10 hours
- When paired, neither time period counts against the 14-hour driving window
- 8-hour sleeper-berth period by itself can no longer be excluded from the 14-hour driving window
Updates to Hours of Service Rules.pdf
This information can also be located in the Resource Library whenever you may need it.