Commercial motor vehicle drivers are required to maintain Records of Duty Status (RODS) or logbook unless otherwise provided below:

1. A logbook is required unless the driver is operating a commercial motor vehicle within a 100 mile radius from where the vehicle is based and

a. Returns to base and goes off-duty within 12 hours;

b. Does not exceed 11 hours driving time; No medical certificate is required for drivers of vehicles transporting agricultural products, including horticultural or forestry products, from farm or harvest place to Intrastate  storage or market.

c. Has at least 10 consecutive hours off-duty before returning to duty; and

d. Time records are kept which shows the time the driver reports for duty, the number of hours on duty each day, and the time driver goes off-duty (records must be kept at least 6 months).

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2. Driver may not drive after:

a. Driving 11 hours after 10 consecutive hours off-duty;

b. Being on-duty 14 hours after 10 consecutive hours off-duty;

c. Being on-duty 60 hours in seven consecutive days or 70 hours in eight consecutive days. However, 34 or more consecutive off-duty hours resets and restarts the 7/8 -day period.

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3. Drivers may extend the 14-hour on-duty period by two additional hours, if they:

a. Are released from duty at the normal work location for the previous five duty tours; AND

b. Return to the normal work reporting location and are released from duty within 16 hours; AND

c. Have not used this exception in the previous seven days, except following a 34-hour restart of a 7/8-day period.

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Total driving hours may not exceed 11 hours. Please see the complete federal regulations for sleeper berth, industry and agricultural exceptions Code of Federal Regulations, Part 395.