Chapter 8 Quiz – Hours of Service – OTDS.com

1. You drive a commercial vehicle only part time you must still follow the hours of service regulations.

True

False

2. Following the hours of service regulations guarantees that you will not be fatigued while driving.

True

False

3. When you are fatigued, you can continue to drive as long as you follow the on-duty and off-duty requirements.

True

False

4. You are retired and you volunteer to drive a 24 ft. box truck to pick up parcels. The truck has a weight rating of 12,000 kg. Since you volunteer your time once each month and it is for a charitable organization, you are exempt from the hours of service regulations.

True

False

5. You operate a backhoe for a demolition contractor and use a tandem axle float trailer to move the backhoe from one job to another every week or two. You don't need to follow the hours of service regulations.

True

False

6. You help a new driver at your company learn how to properly secure and cover a load of expensive machinery. The time spent is...

On-duty

Off-duty

7. You carry a company cell phone on your days off and take five phone calls on the cell phone from the dispatcher. The total time of all of the calls is about one hour. The time spent on the calls is...

On-duty

Off-duty

8. You attend a Transportation of Dangerous Goods training course on a Saturday because your TDG certificate is about to expire. The time spent training is...

On-duty

Off-duty

9. You are an owner-operator and change the oil on your truck and reline the brakes on the front drive axle on your day off. The time spent is...

On-duty

Off-duty

10. You spend 5 hours on a Sunday helping a friend who has rented a 24 ft. truck to move into a new house, but you don't drive the truck. The time spent is...

On-duty

Off-duty

11. You provide driving lessons to a person working part time in your trucking company's warehouse. The time spent is...

On-duty

Off-duty

12. You are required to attend a driver safety meeting on a Saturday. The time spent in the meeting is...

On-duty

Off-duty

13. You live 53 km from your home terminal and take your truck home on the weekend. The day before you return to work, you drive 10km to the fuel depot and fuel your truck, and then drive back home. The time you spent fueling is...

On-duty

Off-duty

14. You spend 4 hours on a Sunday helping a friend who has rented a 24 ft. truck to move into a new house, and spend an hour driving the truck from the friend's old house to the new house. The time spent driving the rental truck is...

On-duty

Off-duty

15. You are caught behind a crash that closes the highway for 4 hours. You get comfortable in your seat and are able to sleep for most of the time until the highway re-opens. This time spend waiting is...

On-duty

Off-duty

16. A driver lives 82 km from his home terminal and takes his truck home at the end of his work day. His duty status changes from on-duty driving to off-duty when he is __________.

75 km from his home terminal.

7 km from his home terminal.

at home.

leaving the terminal.

17. A driver lives 38 km from his home terminal and takes his truck home at the end of his work day. The driver stops along the way home to interview for a different driving job for an hour; he stops at a hardware store to pick up supplies, and then visits his parents who live 5 km out of his direct route home. He arrives home 6.5 hours after leaving his home terminal. His duty status changes from on-duty to off-duty when he __________.

arrives home.

leaves the terminal.

is 75 km from his terminal.

leaves the interview for the new job.

18. A driver, who lives 23 km from her home terminal takes her vehicle home on a Friday, then drives the same vehicle to visit her sister who lives 85 km away from her on the Saturday, and then drives back home on the Sunday. She returns to work on Monday. Her daily logs for Saturday and Sunday need to show __________.

all time as off-duty.

the time spent traveling 85 km as on-duty.

the time spent traveling 10 km as on-duty.

the time spent driving added to her on-duty time on Friday.

19. A driver, who lives 43 km from his home terminal takes his vehicle home on a Friday, and takes a trailer to use in a parade on Saturday. The parade is 7 km from his house and the parade route is 3 km long. The time spent driving the truck home and in the parade is __________.

on-duty.

personal use for the drive from the terminal to home, and back from home to the terminal, but on-duty on Saturday.

on-duty for the drive from the terminal to home, and back from home to the terminal, but off-duty on Saturday.

off-duty.

20. You drive a commercial vehicle to a remote construction site 100 km from your workplace yard. You normally don't travel beyond a radius of 160 km from your terminal and so you complete a record of duty status instead of daily logs. You run into problems on the job and instead of returning to the yard at the end of your shift, you go to a nearby motel for the night so that you can finish the work the next day. What options do you have?

You must complete a driver's daily log for the day.

You can continue to use the record of duty status.

21. Every person driving a __________ must follow the hours-of-service regulations.

22. The specifically formatted document where a driver records duty status is called a __________.

23. An electronic device that is used to track driver duty status is called an __________.

24. All work performed for a motor carrier is considered __________.

25. To be considered off-duty you must be __________ of all duty.

26. The regulations allow __________ of personal-use of a vehicle to be considered different than commercial driving activity.

27. Driving a commercial vehicle that is towing a trailer is __________ considered on-duty.

28. You must be off-duty for at least __________ hours in each day.

29. You must not drive after being on-duty for __________ hours.

30. You must not drive after driving for __________ hours in a day.

31. When using a paper-based driver's daily log, you must have __________ log sheet for each day.

32. Your signature on a daily log declares that the information is __________.

33. Your daily log page or sheet must include the odometer reading of the power unit _________ of the day.

34. Your __________ is the workplace location where you ordinarily report for work.

35. Driver's activities are recorded on the grid based on time increments of __________ minutes.

36. You are required to indicate on your daily log where each __________ in duty status took place.

37. When a duty status change takes place away from a city, town or village, you can indicate the __________ on your daily log.

38. The time of your daily log is always based on the __________ of your home terminal.

39. You must make entries on your daily log beginning with your __________ change of duty status in a day.

40. A work-shift starts as soon as your go on-duty after at least __________ off-duty.

41. When 16 hours has passed since your work-shift started, you must __________.

42. You are only permitted to spend __________ on-duty in a work-shift.

43. You are only permitted to spend __________ driving in a work-shift.

44. When you take 2 hours off-duty during a work-shift you __________ add time to the work-shift.

45. When you work for more than one motor carrier, your day start time is determined by the carrier that you are working for when your __________.

46. When you encounter unexpected adverse driving conditions, you may drive up to __________ in a day.

47. You must provide a copy of each daily log to the motor carrier within __________ of completing the log.

48. You are permitted to __________ some of the required 10 hours off-duty in one day to the next.

49. You cannot drive unless you've had at least one __________ period off-duty in the previous 14 days.

50. When you have a sleeper berth, you are permitted to split the daily minimum 10 hours off-duty into __________ periods.

51. In Cycle 1, you are allowed to be on-duty for up to __________ in 7 consecutive days.

52. In Cycle 2, you are allowed to be on-duty for up to __________ in 14 consecutive days.

53. Once you reach maximum on-duty hours in a cycle you __________ driving.

54. When you complete your cycle-tracker at the end of your work day, you will be able to calculate the __________ left in the cycle.

55. When you complete your cycle-tracker at the end of your work day, you will be able to calculate the available on-duty hours for the __________.

56. You can reset Cycle 1 when you take __________ off-duty.

57. You can reset Cycle 2 when you take __________ off-duty.