Hours of Service & Logs

Hours of service is one rule set with several clocks running at once. A property-carrying driver gets 11 hours behind the wheel inside a 14-hour window that opens after 10 hours off, owes a 30-minute break after 8 hours of driving, and carries a weekly total of 60 hours in 7 days or 70 in 8. The plain-English guide to the rules walks through each clock, and the hours of service calculator tells you what is left on all of them from today's log.

Most of the questions that cost money sit at the edges. Which weekly limit applies to you is settled in the 60 vs 70 hour comparison; when the week can be wiped clean is the 34-hour restart, with its own restart calculator. Splitting the ten hours off is the sleeper berth split, and the local driver who goes home every night should check the short-haul exemption before buying anything.

The record itself is the last piece. Who must run a device and the four ways out of it are in the ELD mandate guide; the three device shapes are weighed in ELD devices compared; and the paper log that still rides in every cab is covered in the log book guide.