Idealease Safety Bulletin - Are Your Supervisors of CDL Drivers Trained According to the FMCSA Regulation?
The October 9th edition of the weekly Idealsafe Safety Bulletin, "Are your Supervisors of CDL Drivers Trained According to the FMCSA Regulation", courtesy of Idealease, is here!
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In this week's edition:
1. Are Your Supervisors of CDL Drivers Trained According to the FMCSA Regulation?
Training Requirements of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety AdministrationWho is subject to the Supervisor Training for Reasonable Suspicion Testing?
CFR 382.603 Training for supervisors
Each employer shall ensure that all persons designated to supervise drivers (CDL) receive at least 60 minutes of training on alcohol misuse and receive at least an additional 60 minutes of training on controlled substances use. The training will be used by the supervisors to determine whether reasonable suspicion exists to require a driver to undergo testing under §382.307. The training shall include the physical, behavioral, speech, and performance indicators of probable alcohol misuse and use of controlled substances. Recurrent training for supervisory personnel is not required
Where can you access the training?
The FMCSA has the supervisor training available in video format that can be downloaded from their website:
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the last link:
https://transit-safety.fta.dot.gov/DrugAndAlcohol/Tools/ReasonableSuspicion.aspx
It will take a while to download due to the length of the video and depending on the quality you choose.
FMCSA Publishes Resources on Driver HOS Changes
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has developed a new web-based template called Educational Tool for Hours of Service (ETHOS) to help motor carriers and drivers understand and comply with the new driver hours of service regulations.
According to the webpage, “When drivers and carriers enter their duty statuses into the web-based log below, ETHOS will identify where potential violations of the following rules may have occurred:
- 11-hour driving limit (property) or 10-hour driving limit (passenger)
- 14-hour driving window (property) or 15-hour on-duty limit (passenger)
- 30-minute break (property)
- Sleeper berth provision.”
- Drivers may select an event date, time, and duty status and click “add event” in the template. Once all the data for a particular log is entered, potential violations will appear on the log and below the log in a table where users can switch between carrier types. The FMCSA said that ETHOS is merely an educational tool to assist in understanding the new rules. The agency will not retain any data entered in this application and will not use the data entered for any purpose.
Short Haul Revision Clarification
Thee has been NO CHANGE to 395.1(e)2 for NON-CDL and it stands now just as it did before the September 29th revision.
Below are both short haul exemptions as they are today:
395.1(e)1
(e) Short-haul operations—(1) 150 air-mile radius driver. A driver is exempt from the requirements of §§395.8 and 395.11 if:
(i) The driver operates within a 150 air-mile radius (172.6 statute miles) of the normal work reporting location;
(ii) The driver, except a driver-salesperson, returns to the work reporting location and is released from work within 14 consecutive hours;
(iii)(A) A property-carrying commercial motor vehicle driver has at least 10 consecutive hours off-duty separating each 14 hours on-duty;
(B) A passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle driver has at least 8 consecutive hours off-duty separating each 14 hours on-duty; and
(iv) The motor carrier that employs the driver maintains and retains for a period of 6 months accurate and true time records showing:
(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 in accordance with §395.8(j)(2) for drivers used for the first time or intermittently.
395.1(e)2
(2) Operators of property-carrying commercial motor vehicles not requiring a commercial driver's license. Except as provided in this paragraph, a driver is exempt from the requirements of §§395.3(a)(2), 395.8, and 395.11 and ineligible to use the provisions of §395.1(e)(1), (g), and (o) if:
(i) The driver operates a property-carrying commercial motor vehicle for which a commercial driver's license is not required under part 383 of this subchapter;
(ii) The driver operates within a 150 air-mile radius of the location where the driver reports to and is released from work, i.e., the normal work reporting location;
(iii) The driver returns to the normal work reporting location at the end of each duty tour;
(iv) The driver does not drive:
(A) After the 14th hour after coming on duty on 5 days of any period of 7 consecutive days; and
(B) After the 16th hour after coming on duty on 2 days of any period of 7 consecutive days;
(v) The motor carrier that employs the driver maintains and retains for a period of 6 months accurate and true time records showing:
(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;
(D) The total time for the preceding 7 days in accordance with §395.8(j)(2) for drivers used for the first time or intermittently.
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