Short Haul Exemption Guidelines

Short Haul Exemption Guidelines

The Short Haul Exemption applies to standard grid logs in which a driver is allotted a 16 hour day, instead of a 14 hour day, once a week as long as they had reported back to their main work reporting location for the last 5 duty tours.

This is how the rule is written:

"A property-carrying driver is exempt from the [14-hour limit] if:
(1) The driver has returned to the driver’s normal work reporting location and the carrier released the driver from duty at that location for the previous five duty tours the driver has worked;
(2) The driver has returned to the normal work reporting location and the carrier releases the driver from duty within 16 hours after coming on duty following 10 consecutive hours off duty; and
(3) The driver has not taken this exemption within the previous 6 consecutive days, except when the driver has [had a 34-hour restart]."

Short Haul Exemption & Encompass® ELD

Encompass® ELD will automatically give the driver a 16-hour on-duty clock if the following requirements have been met:

1. They have left from and returned to their main work reporting location for the past 5 duty tours
2. They haven't already used it in the last 6 days or since their last 34-hour reset, and
3. The Short Haul Exception is turned on in the settings/rules in Encompass® by the company's site administrator for all drivers or for an individual driver.