All right, thank you for joining us for module five, which will go into an in-depth discussion about the hours of service regulations. And without further ado, let's dive right into it, guys. All right, so the first thing we are going to go over is hours of service regulations. So in the trucking industry, there is a certain set amount of hours that drivers can drive every day, and that is put in place by DOT, which is the Department of Transportation. So as a dispatcher, it's important that you know how many hours drivers can drive per day so that when you're scheduling loads for them, you can kind of better coordinate their pickup times, when they're gonna be able to deliver, everything in between. So this is certainly something that you want to understand so that that can make you an even better dispatcher for your driver. So let's go ahead and talk about that. First and foremost, there is a eleven hour driving limit. OK, drivers may drive a maximum of eleven hours after ten consecutive hours off duty. OK, so let's say, you know, it's night. getting their sleep they're getting their ten consecutive hours of rest and then they wake up okay so now they're refreshing they're ready to go it's time to hit the road so first thing they're gonna do is log into their eld which we'll get into later and then they're gonna start the clock and then they're gonna rev up their car I'm sorry their truck and they're gonna take off okay so It's just important to know from the time you start that clock, you have eleven hours. OK, and not a minute more. OK, eleven hours. So next. Fourteen hour limit. So drivers may not drive beyond the fourteenth consecutive hour after coming on duty following ten consecutive hours off duty. Off-duty time does not extend the fourteen hour period. So let's talk about that. I know some of you are like, well, fourteen hours. I thought you said they could only drive eleven. So it is true. Drivers can only drive eleven hours. But as you guys know, things happen. You can have a flat tire, an engine blowout, whatever, bad weather. You may have to pull over. anything could happen, right? So what this fourteen hour limit says is that you can drive eleven hours, but in the event something happens and you have a hold up a delay, you still have time. But after fourteen hours of being active, regardless of if you're driving or not, you are done until you have ten hours of consecutive rest. So Let's go over an example of that. I don't want anybody to be confused about this because it is a little, you know, a little tricky, a little confusing. So let's just go over an example, okay? Let's say your driver has had his ten hours of rest and he's up and he's logging into his ELD, his electronic logging device, and he's starting up the truck and he's getting ready to roll, okay? Let's say that's at five a.m. okay right here that's at five a.m I want it to be cute and have my little marker here that's at five a.m okay now let's say at ten a.m he gets a flat tire okay uh-oh got a flat tire now let's say it takes um from from ten a.m to four p.m he's stranded if somebody doesn't get out there to take care of that tire for him until three p.m okay they replaced the flat tire by four p.m so now he's ready to start rolling again but let's just do some math real quick so the drive time that he had was from five a.m to ten a.m right so that makes for five hours drive time okay now he had a flat tire didn't start rolling again until four. So even though he's had five hours of drive time, he's been active for eleven hours. Now, remember that fourteen hour rule. You can be you can drive for eleven hours. OK, but if something happens, you can be active for a total of fourteen. So even though he's hit eleven hours, he hasn't been driving eleven hours. So he still has some more time that he can drive. Right. Because he can drive for a total of eleven hours. So flat tire gets fixed. We're back on the road and we're rolling at four p.m. Now it's seven p.m. So from four p.m. to seven p.m., that's an extra three hours. Right. Three plus eleven. is fourteen active hours. So now we have hit that fourteen hour mark. So by the time seven PM comes and we've hit our fourteen hours, he better be trying to find a truck stop somewhere pull over so that he can do his ten consecutive hours of rest. Otherwise, he will have gone over his hours and that will show on the electronic log devices and that's where you're going to have a problem because DAT will fine you for going over. Total drive time, he had five hours of drive time in this period And then he had three hours drive time in this period, which makes for a total of, this is what I get for trying to be cute with my marker, a total of eight hours, excuse me, a total of eight hours drive time on a fourteen hour limit. Okay. And that's fine because his total drive time, driving limit is how much? Eleven hours, right? He only went eight hours. So even though he didn't get to drive eleven hours, he hit his fourteen hour limit of activity. So he cannot drive again for a total of ten consecutive hours of rest. OK. So hopefully that makes sense now. Going back, let's talk about the thirty minute driving break. So drivers must take a thirty minute break when they have driven for a period of eight cumulative hours without at least a thirty-minute interruption. Even though you're able to drive for a total of eleven hours, you do have to take a thirty-minute break, minimum. You could take more if needed, but thirty minutes minimum after a period of eight hours is required. The break may be satisfied by any non-driving period of thirty consecutive minutes okay so that just means he has to pull over he doesn't have to go to sleep he can pull over go to the bathroom get some chips read a paper get on Facebook whatever he just has to stop driving for a minimum of thirty minutes okay now Let us talk about adverse driving conditions. Okay. Also known as bad weather. So with adverse driving conditions, drivers are allowed to extend the eleven hour maximum driving limit and the fourteen hour driving window by up to two hours when adverse driving conditions are encountered. So in the event your driver is going through a storm or there's a tornado somewhere in the, in the path, in the direction that he's going, you know, something that is causing him to slow down or have to come to a complete stop altogether. He is able to extend the eleven hour drive time as well as the fourteen hour window by up to two hours. Okay. So that's a good thing. Hopefully he can get to wherever he's trying to go. Now let's talk about the ELDs, which are the electronic logging devices. Now an electronic logging device is intended to help create a safer work environment for drivers and make it easier and faster to accurately track manage and share records of duty status okay. An ELD synchronizes with a vehicle engine to automatically record the driving time for easier, more accurate hours of service and recording. Okay, so what this means, guys, is once upon a time, you know, Back in the good days of transportation. So drivers used to actually manually write their hours. They used to manually log their hours on a logging sheet. But the problem with that, which I'm pretty sure you can imagine, is that drivers were fudging their hours. what that means is that you know for the road warriors that were like I've got to get this load where it needs to be because I got to go pick up another one and I'm trying to make x amount of dollars by the end of the week those drivers would go over intentionally go over their hours okay and you know unfortunately that caused a lot of problems you know drivers were falling asleep on the road you know having wrecks fatalities all types of things you know and that's because they weren't able to so easily fudge their um their hours their driving hours So DOT put a halt on that, I would say probably back around. If I'm not mistaken, probably before that, I think it was actually closer to like, um, is when ELDs electronic logging devices came out. And so that became the new way to monitor hours in like this, this, um, definition says here, it is tracked by the engine. When that engine is on and it's running, the logging device is clocking that time. There is literally no way that you can fudge this anymore. While it does make things more difficult and put more restriction, I'm all for it because it makes for a safer, like this says, a safer work environment and keeps drivers from you know, burning themselves out, falling asleep at the wheel and possibly crashing. So, you know, this is where we are with transportation now, and it's a good thing. So, you know, this is important for you to know your drivers, all drivers are required to have an electronic logging device. Okay. So you'll hear your drivers talking about that. They know how to operate them. That's something you definitely won't know how to do because you won't be there. But it's just important for you to know what it is. So there you have it. Okay. And again, once again, that is going to complete the end of this chapter. As always, thank you for your time. And I will see you in the next one. Okay, guys, that is a big subject that we are talking about. Hours of service and the ELD, which stands for electronic logging device. That is a very, very important thing in the life of a driver. Now, What is the eleven hour driving limit in a day? What is that? What is that all about? Zyra, what is meant by an eleven hour driving limit in a day? It's a maximum driving time for the driver to have. Okay. Okay. So a driver could not drive more than eleven hours in a day. Yes. How many hours can a driver drive before he has to take a thirty minute break? Christine? It should be eight hours. Awesome. So a driver cannot drive more than eight hours before he has to take a thirty minute break. He can drive eleven hours in a day, but he can only drive eight hours before he must take a mandatory thirty minute break. How many hours is, can a driver work in a day? Erwin. Uh, fourteen hours. Okay, so that's the maximum hours a driver can work in a day. Now, that can be a combination of a lot of things. Work is considered driving. Work is considered getting loaded and unloaded. Work is considered doing your invoicing and paperwork, anything truck related, checking your oil, checking your tires. Getting your truck wash. Absolutely, JM. Any truck-related duties or anything that has to do with your normal work activities is considered work time. All right. What's the maximum hours per week a driver can work? Seventy hours. Okay. And when that seventy hours come, A driver can face one or two things. If he has what's called recaps coming back on a daily basis, then he can run off recaps. That's the language that's used. He can run off recaps. And we'll talk about recaps later. That can get a little sticky and a little complicated. But let's just say for our discussion right now that he's at his Now he must take how many hours off? Thirty four hours. Thirty four hours before he can drive or work, do work related duties again. He must take thirty four consecutive hours off. OK, and that's what's called a thirty four hour reset, guys. All right. So there's, we'll, and we'll talk more about the, uh, hours of service regulations later on. We'll talk about pre trips. We're going to have our own, uh, module where we'll talk about pre trips, hours of service, running off recaps, the thirty four hour reset. Uh, when does your, your recaps start to come back to you? Uh, And things like that. We'll get more in-depth in it. But right now, for the basics, we're going to leave it at the driver can only drive eight hours before he has to do what, JM? I'm sorry? The driver can only drive eight hours before he has to do what? I can't hear you. I'm sorry. I'm kind of confused with the question. I'm sorry. OK. A driver can drive eight hours. Then what must he do? Sorry. He can take a break. Thirty minutes. OK. Break. He must take a at least thirty minutes. Now he can take longer if he so desires. And if his time permits, he can take an hour, two hours, three hours. It's up to him. but at minimum he must take at least thirty minutes now if he drives eight hours takes a thirty minute break tashi how many hours does he have left to drive now he's drove eight hours how many does he have left after he comes back from his thirty minute break um he only has um three hours left to drive exactly he only has three hours left that he can drive now when I was a driver I this is what I used to do I think I used to drive sometimes I would drive eight hours and take a thirty minute break sometimes I would drive two hours take a fifteen minute break drive another two hours take another fifteen minute break then once I got to eight hours I would take either thirty minutes or an hour break. It depends on how soon I wanted to be through with my day affected how I scheduled my break time. But regardless, I would sometimes drive eight hours, take my take an hour break. I wouldn't take a thirty. I'd take an hour and then I'd start back driving. I'd have three hours left. And then like before you start driving, there's things that we're mandated to do as well, such as a pre-trip inspection. Once you finish your day, you have to do what's called a post-trip inspection. All of that is involved in your fourteen-hour workday. So there's a lot of factors that the driver has to take into consideration when he's accepting a load. Is there any questions, like I said, we will dive deeper into this in later modules, but is there any questions so far on the hours of service regulations? Everybody got a basic general understanding of it? Yes. All right. We will move on to the next module.