Special Duty Statuses

In certain circumstances, a motor carrier may have special duty statuses enabled such as Personal Conveyance (PC) or Yard Moves (YM). Special duty statuses can be enabled or disabled on an individual driver basis in their profile under Manage Drivers in Ground Traffic Control. A driver will receive a notification on the tablet when changes are made to their driver profile.

Special duty status must be selected prior to the vehicle moving. If the vehicle is in motion and a special duty status has not been selected, an Automatic Drive event will be created. The Automatic Drive event will not be able to be edited.

FMCSA wishes to clarify that all miles driven, regardless of the status the driver has selected, are recorded. However, when a personal conveyance status is selected, the CMV’s location is recorded with a lower level of precision, i.e., an approximate 10-mile radius. FMCSA believes that the recording of these miles is essential to HOS compliance, but balances this requirement with protections on the privacy of location data when drivers are not on-duty.

FMCSA understands the potential for abuse of the personal conveyance status, and has purposely required that all movements of the CMV be recorded (with a less precise location requirement). The rules do not allow driving statuses, including off-duty driving, to be edited to say they are non-driving time. These protections will directly address the falsification of HOS records, making it significantly harder. FMCSA believes that recording all the time that a CMV is in motion will limit significantly the amount of falsified time.

Special Duty Status Display

The grid view on the Driver Logs screen indicates when a special duty status has been used. YM for Yard Move or PC for Personal Conveyance is displayed next to the duty status entry and it is colored differently (see below).In the list view, however, the indicator on the right will display “YM” for yard movement and “PC” for personal conveyance.

This example shows a driver having selected both special driving conditions.

Drivers can manually select “Personal Conveyance” when they are using the vehicle for personal use. The time period when the driver is using Personal Conveyance is recorded with a corresponding color code and “PC” on the grid.

1. From the Application home screen, tap the menu icon  in the upper left corner of the screen and tap Update Duty Status.
2. From the Update Duty Status screen, tap Off Duty, then Personal Conveyance.
3. Tap Apply.
   

The driver will need to update their duty status to stop accumulating Personal Conveyance. When a driver is in PC and shuts the engine off, at key on the driver will receive a prompt to remain in PC or to update duty status. If the driver does not respond to the prompt and begins driving, PC will be removed and drive time will be recorded.

Drivers can use Yard Moves when operating a vehicle within a designated yard. The time period when the driver is in Yard Movement will be recorded as an “ON Duty” with a corresponding color code and “YM” on the grid. Drivers have the ability to manually start and end Yard Moves.

Yard Move requires the vehicle to be within a geofenced area classified as a Zonar Yard in Ground Traffic Control. See Manage Zones for more information.

1. From the Application home screen, tap the menu  icon in the upper left corner of the screen and tap Update Duty Status.
2. From the Update Duty Status screen, tap On Duty, then Yard Moves.
3. Tap Apply.
   

When a driver is in YM and shuts the engine off, at next key on the driver will receive a prompt to remain in YM or to update duty status. If the driver does not respond to the prompt and begins driving, YM will be removed and drive time will be recorded.

The motor carrier has the ability to set individual drivers to an “Exempt Driver Status” if they operate under exemptions that do not require a driver to maintain a Record of Duty Status.

Drivers must contact dispatchers in order to get an exempt status. The exempt status is proactively set by only the motor carrier. Also, if the driver exceeds an exemption, it’s not automatically changed; the driver shall contact their motor carrier when this setting needs to be updated.

A driver’s exempt status is displayed in Roadside View and log in and log out events.

If unforeseen weather or road conditions cause delays, the Adverse Driving Condition may be applied, which extends available drive time by 2 hours, reducing the Daily Off Duty Time requirement by 2 hours.

When the Adverse Driving Condition is active, the relevant clocks are flagged and adjusted accordingly.

The Adverse Driving Condition is cleared when the Drive event ends, regardless of whether or not the full 2 hours has elapsed.

1. Tap the menu icon to open the ZLogs menu.
2. Select Apply Driving Exemption.
3. Select Adverse driving condition and tap Continue.
4. Notate the reason for enabling Adverse Driving and tap Save.