#Personal conveyance drivers#

have different personal conveyance requirements, as Canada requires the vehicle to be unloaded and trailers unhitched. See a difference here? Clearly, Canada and the U.S.

#Personal conveyance drivers#

Drivers are also required to keep track of the personal conveyance’s starting and ending odometer readings, and subtracting that distance from the total distance traveled for the day. That 75 km is the actual distance traveled, not radius distance, too. In Canada, commercial drivers subject to the hours of service regulations are limited to 75 km of personal conveyance per day (logged as off-duty) if the vehicle has been unloaded and trailers have been unhitched. Before this guidance was issued, drivers could only log themselves off duty for personal conveyance if the vehicle was unladen. In the U.S., a driver may record the time operating a commercial vehicle for personal conveyance as “off-duty” only when the driver is relieved from all responsibility for performing work by the motor carrier, regardless of whether the vehicle is laden. border, and another issue that surprisingly has very little to do with hours of service. One situation involves cross-border carriers that may have drivers using personal conveyance on both sides of the Canada-U.S. There are two situations that haven’t yet been addressed, not because administration doesn’t care, but because they’re slightly outside of its purview. Such as is the case with FMCSA’s guidance.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued revised guidance on the use of a commercial vehicle as a personal conveyance. While it’s always great to have further clarification of the rules, especially surrounding hours of service, sometimes these clarifications can generate more questions than answers.