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United States (FMCSA)

A vehicle whose compliance profile is set to the United States is evaluated under the FMCSA property-carrier rules. The same regime applies by default to vehicles that have no profile assigned yet — if your fleet operates outside the United States, change that during your first setup.

Limits and clocks

  • Driving — 11 hours in the current duty period.
  • Duty window — 14 hours counted from the end of the last daily reset. It elapses whether the driver is driving, working or resting.
  • Break — 30 minutes after 8 hours of driving. The driving-since-break counter resets on any 30 minutes or more of continuous non-driving time: off duty, sleeper berth, or on-duty work that isn't driving.
  • Cycle — 60 hours in 7 days or 70 hours in 8 days, whichever the compliance profile declares. The cycle counts all on-duty time, not just driving.

The profile also carries two exceptions. Adverse driving conditions raise both the driving limit and the duty window by 2 hours — to 13 and 16. The 150-air-mile short-haul flag marks the operation as exempt from keeping records; the clocks still run against the standard 14-hour window, and the exemption is carried into the inspection export.

Rests and resets

  • 10 hours of continuous rest ends the duty period: a new 14-hour window opens and the driving and break clocks start from zero.
  • 34 hours of continuous rest restarts the cycle — the 60- or 70-hour counter then runs from the end of that rest rather than from the start of the 7- or 8-day window.
  • Sleeper-berth split — a sleeper period of at least 7 hours paired with another rest of at least 2 hours, together adding up to at least 10. The qualifying sleeper period doesn't count against the 14-hour window, so the driver regains part of the window without a full daily reset.

Specifics

For a roadside inspection you generate an eRODS export — a file sectioned into header, carrier, driver and duty-status events, where every line and the file as a whole carry a check value. Duty records and supporting documents are retained for 6 months.

When a fleet has a US jurisdiction profile, quarterly IFTA filing deadlines appear in the compliance calendar automatically — see IFTA and mobility.

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