The crazy quilt of intrastate hours logging and ELD mandates Overdrive. No small amount of road rumor has swirled around the trucking community about just what states might do relative to the electronic logging device mandate for the subset of truckers operating entirely within a states borders and keeping log books. If a states intrastate hours of service regulations differ at all from the federal interstate rule, they tend to be less restrictive. They often allow more on duty time, more drive time and higher cumulative limits. Joe Rajkovacz of the Western States Trucking Association says that until recently, the big question was Do states, for their intrastate markets, thumb their noses at the federal mandate Rajkovacz is based in California, which, with Texas, represents one of the nations two largest intrastate markets in the lower 4. Texas seemed to answer that question this year with additions to its regulatory code governing intrastate operations, making news in April. It adopted the federal mandate by reference to it, thus requiring implementation of ELDs for intrastate carriers. However, there was one significant revision Given the size of Texas intrastate market, officials decided to delay the implementation timeline. If youre a carrier in a small state, says Texas Department of Public Safety Maj. Breath Of Fire 3 German Isolation. Jeremy Nordloh, youre probably always under interstate rules. But you can have a significant intrastate operation in Texas. Adding further fuel to intrastate related road rumors is the additional complexity of a local hauling exemption from the federal ELD mandate. Driver Daily Log Texas Dot Trucking Regulations' title='Driver Daily Log Texas Dot Trucking Regulations' />Trucking questions and answers related to the job and life on the road as a trucker. Apart from state or federal ELD mandates, intrastate hours of service regulations in Texas are different than the federal rule most Overdrive readers operate under. There are are number of fees and expenses related to trucking that are tax deductible, and a wellorganized trucker takes all tax deductions available. Operators always running under the short haul 1. ELD. But if they do occasionally run outside the radius, they can avoid using an ELD as long as they keep a log book for no more than eight days in any 3. For intrastate mandates, the exemptions for pre 2. Apart from state or federal ELD mandates, intrastate hours of service regulations in Texas are different than the federal rule most Overdrive readers operate under. For example, Texas allows 1. Hours regulations also differ in other states with significant intrastate markets, such as California, Alaska and Florida. Approximately one in every nine Overdrive readers operates exclusively under one of the different intrastate hours of service rules. The large majority of those in state haulers are in Texas, California and Florida. Those states allow for more drive time 1. Their cumulative limits are higher for in state haulers, too, though states treat those limits slightly differently. Many ELD providers products support a variety of intrastate rules, delivering hours limit warnings to drivers and carrier staff operating under a specific rule. However, many new providers entered the market following the federal mandate. Most of their products offer compliance warnings, time counters and such, but not all have options for particular intrastate rules. Texas relaxed timeline for intrastate haulers requires ELD use on Dec. December 2. 01. 7 deadline for interstate truckers. Chief in calculating that delay, Nordloh says, is a concern over having enough providers to support Texas intrastate rules. We gave it a blanket deadline in December 2. With that date, Texas has pushed adoption and enforcement of the ELD rule a bit further than is technically allowed by federal regulation, meaning there could be some risk to federal funding of safety and enforcement programs. Guidance in Title 4. Part 3. 55, of the Code of Federal Regulations requires states to adopt and enforce federal regulations pertaining to intrastate commercial vehicle operations within three years of the effective date of the federal regulation. Since the effective date for the ELD rule was February 1. February 2. 01. 9, 1. Federal officials did not respond to an inquiry about Texas compliance with that guidance. Many states responding to Overdrive queries noted they already had adopted the ELD regulation and were sticking to the federal timeline for the intrastate haulers under the hours of service in their states. However, most of these states use hours limitations for intrastate hauling, with some exceptions, that are identical to the federal rules. Not all exception states are pushing against the three year regulatory adoption requirement as aggressively as Texas. At press time, Floridas legislature was adopting federal regulations and specified a Dec. ELD implementation for carriers operating under its daily limits of 1. This gives the intrastate industry time to come into compliance after our legislation passes, says Major Derek Barrs of the Florida Highway Patrols commercial vehicle enforcement office. He notes this is similar to what was done for interstate carriers after the rule went into effect in early 2. Barrs says. California might be the most significant remaining intrastate outlier, given the size of its market. Jill Schultz, hours regulations expert for J. J. Keller Associates, suspects that, unlike Floridas legislative and Texas quick adoption by reference methods, the Golden State likely will go through a regulatory action. California has not put a proposal out yet, Schultz says. Officials with the California Highway Patrol declined to comment on a timeline. Fran Clader in CHPs communications office says the agency is developing regulations for ELDs, including applicability to intrastate driverscarriers. Next in this series.