Section 395.3 sets the daily driving limits for property-carrying CMV drivers: 11 hours of driving after 10 consecutive hours off duty, and no driving after the 14th hour following coming on duty. The 60/70-hour cycle limits also apply under §395.3(b).
OOS criteria
A driver caught driving beyond the 11- or 14-hour limit is placed out of service for 10 consecutive hours. The carrier is cited and the violation contributes to the HOS Compliance BASIC.
Severity weight
Standard severity weight is 7 in the HOS Compliance BASIC. Repeat or pattern violations escalate the carrier's percentile quickly.
How to prevent it
- Use an ELD that hard-stops driving at the limit (most do, when configured correctly).
- Build dispatch buffers — don't plan a 14-hour day when one delay puts the driver over.
- Train drivers on the personal conveyance and yard-move provisions so they don't waste duty hours on parking-lot moves.
- Sleeper-berth split is allowed under §395.1(g) — train drivers when it applies.
How Roadworthy HQ helps
Roadworthy HQ has no hours-of-service screen. It does not import ELD data, store records of duty status or supporting documents, or detect HOS violations. On the ELD side it keeps a per-vehicle registry of the device (provider, model, serial, FMCSA registration ID) and checks it daily against FMCSA's revoked-device list, with warnings ahead of the replacement deadline. A driver can be marked short-haul on their profile so the audit-readiness check stops expecting logs from them.