DO: Snap out two Monthly Summary Sheets from Part IV of this workbook. Then, read the schedules for the two drivers listed below. Record their hours in pencil on the appropriate dates of the Monthly Summary Sheets. Assume in each case that the drivers have not worked for the previous two weeks as business has been slow. Then, decide whether or not they have hours left for driving during the next day. Finally, answer any questions which follow each schedule.
Driver No. 1 - Bill Evans: Bill runs on a 70-hour/8-day schedule. He drives for Continental Speedy Delivery in Chicago. He runs back and forth between Minneapolis/St. Paul and Chicago almost every day of the year. It's pretty boring, but he knows every bend in the road and can make good time. Here is his schedule for an 8-day period.
October 1st - Chicago to St. Paul, 1 hour on duty not driving, 9 hours driving.
October 2nd - St. Paul to Chicago, 1 hour on duty not driving, 9 hours driving.
October 3rd - Chicago to Minneapolis, 1-1/2 hours on duty not driving, 9 hours and 15 minutes driving.
October 4th - Minneapolis to Chicago, 1 hour on duty not driving, 9 hours and 15 minutes driving.
October 5th - Chicago to St. Paul, 1 hour on duty not driving, 8 hours and 45 minutes driving.
October 6th - St. Paul to Chicago, 7 hours and 30 minutes driving, 8 hours on duty not driving.
October 7th - Chicago to Minneapolis, 1-1/2 hours on duty not driving, 9 hours driving.
October 8th - Minneapolis to La Crosse, Wl, 4 hours driving, 45 minutes on duty not driving. Bill took the rest of the day off to attend an Octoberfest at a famous brewery in La Crosse.
- Was Bill in violation of the Hours of Service Law at any point during the 8 days?
- What do you think happened on October 6th?
- What do you think an ICC inspector would say about Bill's hours' violation on October 6th?
- What do you think an ICC inspector would say about Bill's hours' violation on October 7th? On the 8th?
February 10th - Mountain View to Sacramento to Reno, two deliveries, 6 hours driving, 2-1/2 hours on duty not driving.
February 11th - Reno to Salt Lake City, 10-1/2 hours driving, 1-1/2 hours on duty not driving, one delivery.
February 12th - Salt Lake City to Craig, CO, 8 hours driving, one hour on duty not driving, no deliveries.
February 13th - Sam went to Steamboat Springs for the weekend with a friend. Off duty all day.
February 14th - Off duty all day.
February 15th - Craig to Denver, 8 hours driving, 4 hours on duty not driving, 4 deliveries in Denver.
February 16th - Denver to Salina, KS, 10 hours driving, 1-1/2 hours on duty not driving, no deliveries.
February 17th - Salina to Kansas City to Columbia, MO, 9-1/2 hours driving, 4 hours on duty not driving, 3 deliveries Kansas City, 2 in Columbia.
February 18th - Columbia to Saint Louis, 3 hours driving, 3 hours on duty not driving, 3 deliveries.
Stop recording Sam's hours here. She will continue her cross-country trip for another two weeks, snaking around the country as she makes a number of deliveries, then deadheading back to Mountain View as she was unable to obtain a return haul for her electronics van.
- According to Sam's Monthly Summary Sheet, was she in violation of the Hours of Service Law at any point during her trip?
Do you think Sam drove at unsafe speeds any time during her trip? Consult a map if you need to.
- Why do you think she covered so much distance on February 11th?
DO: Snap out three copies of the Driver's Duty Status Record (Log Sheet #2) from Part IV of this workbook. Read the paragraphs below and use the information in them to complete the daily log sheets for three days running. (Notice that this log sheet does not have a recap section on the right-hand side of the form. The recap is a valuable help in filling in the Monthly Summary Sheet, but it is not required by federal law.) After you have completed the log sheets for the three days, answer the questions which follow Dudley's May 7th trip information.
Dudley D'Right, Driver: Dudley drives for Expert Haulers in Missoula,
Montana. Expert is located at 1910 Buff Road, and the company has only that one yard. Dudley's haul will take him from Missoula to Tuba City, Arizona, with a load of chicken manure in 25 lb. sacks. He will be driving alone. The shipper is Fancy Chicken Farms, and his bill of lading is No. 7-346.
May 5: Dudley arrived at the yard at 4 a.m. and found that he had been assigned Truck No. 7, and Trailer No. PY. He spent 45 minutes checking out the rig. During his pre-trip inspection, he found that the latch on his trailer was broken and needed to be replaced immediately so that the doors wouldn't swing open on the highway. The company mechanic replaced the latch while Dudley waited, and by 5:30, Dudley was ready to roll. Dudley drove to Butte, arriving at a truck stop there at 8:30. He had breakfast and then spent 15 minutes checking out his rig. At 9:15, he was ready to roll again. During this leg of his journey, he went straight from Butte, MT, to Ogden, UT, arriving there at 3:45 p.m. Since he was almost out of hours, he got a motel there by 4:00 and parked his rig. He had covered 502 miles in his 9-3/4 hours of driving. His post-trip inspection took him another 30 minutes. Then, he filled in his log sheet and signed off for the evening. He did not count the time it took him to fill in his log sheet, record his meals and lodging receipts, or phone his dispatcher as time on-the-clock.
May 6th: Dudley got up early to beat the rush-hour traffic going through Salt Lake City. He had breakfast at a restaurant across the street from his motel and began his pre-trip inspection at 4:30 a.m. He was ready to roll by 5:05. He got to the Fremont Pass by 9:15, took 45 minutes to cross over to Highway 89, and arrived at a truck stop in Kanab for lunch at 11:45. He spent an hour and a quarter over lunch because his favorite waitress was working the counter. At 1:00, he rechecked his rig and took on 70 gallons of fuel, and was back on the road by 1:45 p.m. Two and a quarter hours later, he arrived in Tuba City, and began unloading the trailer. The only forklift was broken, so some guys helped him unload by hand. It was 5:30 by the time the papers had been signed and the truck unloaded. Dudley drove to a motel for the night, arriving there by 5:40. Then he spent 30 minutes on his post-trip inspection and signed off. It was 6:15 p.m. Dudley had driven 484 miles.
May 7th: Dudley got up and began checking his rig out at 5 a.m. He left Tuba City at 5:35 and drove to his favorite spot in Kanab for breakfast. He managed to keep his breakfast stop to 45 minutes, did a half hour check on his vehicles and was on the road by 9:00. At 2:15, he stopped in Provo at a fast-foods restaurant and picked up lunch. Then, he drove around the corner to a truck wash to have his trailer cleaned since he was going to be carrying a load of books from a Provo bindery, called Deseret Perfect Bind to a publisher in Twin Falls, Idaho. He ate his lunch while the truck was being washed. By 3:00, he was out of the truck wash and at 3:15 he was at the bindery. The shipping papers were ready for him (B/L No. BKS-811), but the dock workers at the bindery took until 5:00 p.m. to get the trailer loaded. Dudley managed not to get hot under the collar, even though the delays meant that he would be driving through Salt Lake City during rush hour. Dudley got only as far as Ogden by the time his driving hours were about to run out. He got a motel at 7:00 p.m. Then he did his post-trip inspection and signed off the clock at 7:30. He had covered 504 miles in 10 hours, averaging 50 miles per hour.
- Was Dudley in violation of the Hours of Service Law at any time during his trip?
- Why did Dudley have the trailer cleaned in Provo?
- Was Dudley on the clock when he picked up his lunch on May 7th?
