GPS Tracking and Air Mile Radius Maps
Although we try to make all our articles here on the GPS tracking ROI blog directly related to GPS Tracking, Our sister site, Air Miles Maps Online just posted a very useful refresher on how a company can improve thier bottom line by using a specialized air mile radius maps and the 100 Air Miles FMCSA Exemption rules to keep local drivers away from the hassle and wasted time of using the common commercila vehicle logooks (RODS). This is certainly useful to any commercial operator, with or without GPS Tracking installed.
We get a lot of questions here at Air Miles Maps Online regarding the finer points of the Federal Motor carrier Safety Administration rules for so-called “short haul” or “local” log book (RODS) exemptions. It’s always best to go to the source:
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/truck/driver/hos/hos-faqs.asp
C-2 What is an “air mile”?
The term “air-mile” is internationally defined as a “nautical mile” which is
equivalent to 6,076 feet. Thus, the 100 air-miles are equivalent to 115.08
statute miles, and 150 air-miles are equivalent to 172.6 statute miles.
Most operators and drivers reading here are OTR drivers and do not operate under the 100 air
mile log book exemption. But for some, this can be a very important exemption for improving your bottom line by eliminating a lot of paperwork requirements.
Remember, this air mile log book exemption doesn’t measure how many miles it takes to drive from A to B, it only measures the straight-line distance, or as the crow flies”, from A to B.
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There are many drivers that think once you cross a state’s border, that is to say become interstate, you cannot use the 100 air mile exemption. That’s not true, that rule went away quite a few years ago. Here are the requirements for using the 100 air mile log book exemption:
100 air-mile radius exemption:
A driver is exempt from maintaining the driver’s daily log requirements of Section 395.8 if all of the following are true:
a.. The driver operates within a 100 air-mile radius of the normal work reporting location.
b.. The driver returns to the work reporting location and is released from work within 12 consecutive hours.
c.. Each 12 hours on duty are separated by at least:
a.. 10 consecutive hours off duty for property-carrying drivers, or
b.. 8 consecutive hours off duty for passenger-carrying drivers.
d.. The driver does not exceed a maximum of:
a.. 11 hours driving time following 10 consecutive hours off duty for property-carrying drivers, or
b.. 10 hours driving time following 8 consecutive hours off duty for passenger-carrying drivers.
e.. The motor carrier that employs the driver maintains and retains for a period of six months accurate and true time records that show:
a.. The time the driver reports for duty each day;
b.. The total number of hours the driver is on duty each day;
c.. The time the driver is released from duty each day; and
d.. The total time for the preceding 7 days for first-time or intermittent drivers.
This really seems pretty important to me, now that we are heading into the last quarter of the year and a (hopefully) very busy holiday season … this will help get those store deliveries out there in the shortest time and the lowest possible cost via the use of an Air Miles Map.
You to can save, even if you have not, as yet, seen how much you can also save with GPS Tracking.