Question 17: Can military time be used on the grid portion of the driver’s record of duty status? Military time is also acceptable. Question 16: Are drivers required to include their total on-duty time for the previous 7 to 8 days (as applicable) on the driver’s record of duty status? Supporting documents are the records of the motor carrier which are maintained in the ordinary course of business and used by the motor carrier to verify the information recorded on the driver’s record of duty status. Guidance: Section 395.8(k)(1) requires motor carriers to retain all supporting documents at their principal places of business for a period of 6 months from date of receipt. If these records are maintained at locations other than the principal place of business but are not used by the motor carrier for verification purposes, they must be forwarded to the principal place of business upon a request by an authorized representative of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) or State official within 2 business days.
Guidance: Any method of correction would be acceptable so long as it does not negate the obligation of the driver to certify by his or her signature that all entries were made by the driver and are true and correct. Question 8: May a motor carrier return a driver’s completed record of duty status to the driver for correction of inaccurate or incomplete entries? Guidance: Yes, although the regulations do not require a driver to submit “corrected” records of duty status. Question 4: Must drivers, alternating between interstate and intrastate commerce, record their intrastate driving time on their record of duty status? Question 11: Is a driver who works for a motor carrier on an occasional basis and who is regularly employed by a non-motor carrier entity required to submit either records of duty status or a signed statement regarding the hours of service for all on-duty time as “on-duty time” as defined by §395.2? Question 9: May a duplicate copy of a record of duty status be submitted if an original was seized by an enforcement official? If a driver is dispatched on a trip, which is subsequently completed, and then is dispatched on another trip on that calendar day, two shipping document numbers or two shippers and commodities must be shown in the remarks section of the record of duty status.
It will then reflect the PNR status of your ticket. Question 3: If a driver’s record of duty status is not signed, may enforcement action be taken on the current day’s record if it contains false information? Question 18: Section 395.8(d)(4) requires that the name of the motor carrier be shown on the driver’s record of duty status. Question 10: What regulation, interpretation, and/or administrative ruling requires a motor carrier to retain supporting documents and what are those documents? You forget that there are probably thousands our there that are not having problems. Having a non-sellable item in a stack causes the whole stack to be non-sellable. If the error is ours, we will cover shipping expenses and re-send the item to you. Guidance: The following are some of the documents acceptable to satisfy the requirement: shipping manifests, invoices/freight bills, trip reports, charter orders, special order numbers, bus bills or any other document that identifies a particular movement of passengers or cargo. Pension plans in critical and endangered status are required to adopt a plan aimed at restoring the financial health of the pension plan. The name of the city, town, village, or municipality, followed by the State abbreviation where all the stops took place, must appear in the “remarks” section of the record of duty status.
Guidance: All stops made in any one city, town, village or municipality may be computed as one. In such cases the sum of all stops should be shown on a continuous line as on-duty (not driving).The aggregate driving time between such stops should be entered on the record of duty status immediately following the on-duty (not driving) entry. Question 6: How should multiple short stops in a town or city be recorded on a record of duty status? Supporting documents may include other documents which the motor carrier maintains and can be used to verify information on the driver’s records of duty status. To make your journeys easier and memorable, NDTV Rail Beeps will help you track train numbers and names, PNR statuses, Live Train Running Status and information about Train Between Stations at the click of a button. Question 1: How should a change of duty status for a short period of time be shown on the driver’s record of duty status?
