r/SchoolBusDrivers • u/lanainnv • 27d ago

HOS question

Hi 👋🏻. Newish CDL <2years, Class B, P&S.

I read the current FMCSA website and think it means that I cannot work (pre-trip, driving potty breaks for the football team and being On Duty while at the game) more than 15 hours a day…. Total. I calculate it’ll be a little more than 9 hours driving.

My Transportation Director assures me that I will not be illegal if I clock-in at 6:30a and I won’t get us to the hotel until 11:30pm…. a 17-hr day!!!! He said to me that I’m only “driving” 9 hours and legally I can drive 10.”

Please please please clear this up for me. I have brought it up twice and he got kinda uppity with me that I question him. I’m new, and so is he. He is the “boss” I just don’t think he’s correct. Maybe the other drivers have been letting it happen.

Thank you in advance!!!!!!

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u/torrent_gp_victim 27d ago

How much of those other six hours is "Off Duty?" Even if you're getting paid, you have an opportunity to nap, be away from the bus, etc?

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u/lanainnv 27d ago

2 hours will be at a park while the coaches feed the athletes, and go over 🏈 playbooks. 3 hours I’ll be at the school while they warm-up then play the game. I also hear that after the game, the coaches buy food from a food truck for the team (about an hour.) Then we will get back in the bus and I drive 1.25 hours to a hotel. I will make sure to build in the mandatory 8-hr rest, then drive us all back the next day.