DOT Rules
RESET
Tricky Business
Spills!
100
A driver may only drive this many hours before taking a 10 hour break.
What is 11 hours?
100
I've had a great week! But uh-oh -- my ELD is saying I'm low on hours -- I must be getting close to having worked:
What is 70 hours in 8 days?
100
When traveling in Louisiana, I can only haul a maximum of this quantity of 22 Baume HCl per load:
What is 4,850 gallons?
100
This person is notified of every spill at Reagent.
Who is Jason Stanley (JP)?
200
A driver reaches 70 hours on duty within the rolling 8-day period. To legally drive again, the driver must wait until hours from the 9th day to drop out of the 8-day window -- or use this qualifying off-duty period to reset the drive time cycle.
What is 34 consecutive hours off duty?
200
A driver can take a break this long and completely re-start his DOT hours.
What is a 34-hour reset?
200
My customer is 213 miles away -- I use this formula to figure out how long the trip will take.
What is 1 hour for every 50 miles?
200
Chemtrec calls in that they have located a leak coming from one of the cars shipping out of the Geismar, LA facility. You open this form to document it.
What is the Blank Railcar Spill Report?
300
A driver does this after 8 cumulative hours of driving.
What is take a 30 minute break?
300
In order to complete a reset, drivers must be in one of these two statuses.
What is Off-Duty or Sleeper-Berth?
300
I have two deliveries tomorrow - I have figured up the mileage and determined that both loads require both drivers to leave at the same time - this is a deciding factor that puts one above the other.
What is drive distance?
(ex. two loads that leave their point of origin at the same time, like 3 a.m., but one load is 50 miles away and one is 100 miles away, the load that is 100 miles will be #1, the 50 mile load #2)
300
Your driver calls and reports that there has been an acid spill. You ask this question next to determine which form will be used.
Where did the acid come from (trailer, railcar, storage tank, customer storage tank)
400
Under the 70-hour/8-day rule, when calculating today's available hours, the hours from this day are removed from the 8-day total.
What is the 9th day (the oldest day)?
400
These are the hours that are counted to calculate a driver's 70 hours per 8 day cycle.
On-duty time and Drive time are both added up to determine how many hours of service a driver has used and remain to be used during an 8 day cycle.
400
This special exception allows drivers to extend their day - but only once per 7-day period and provided a driver has begun and ended their last 5 consecutive workdays at the same location and completes 10 hours off-duty before starting the shift and does not extend driving past 11 hours.
What is a 16 hour exemption?
400
UN1789
What is the Hazmat ID number for Hydrochloric Acid?
500
This can be completed in two parts -- 7/3 or 8/2.
What is a split break?
500
Only when a driver is nearly out of hours, does not pick up hours, and does not have scheduled days off in time to reset their hours, should they do this.
When should a driver take a reset?
500
Only these employees should instruct drivers on how to utilize their E-Logs.
Who are driver managers (terminal manager)?
500
After a spill a customer's safety manager calls in asking if we have the product data sheet for HCL. Where do you locate it and what is it called?
Where is in the company server and what is SDS?