If you are a driver in the Canada South region, you must follow the regional regulations which stipulate that, apart from daily 8 hours of consecutive Off Duty time, you may take the daily 2 hours Off Duty time in blocks not less than 30 minutes.
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To help you understand the Canada South regulations, you can refer to the following guidelines for Daily Off-duty Time:
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14(1) A motor carrier shall ensure that a driver takes at least 10 hours of off-duty time in a day.
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(2) Off-duty time other than the mandatory 8 consecutive hours may be distributed throughout the day in blocks that are each 30 minutes or more.
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(3) The total amount of off-duty time taken by a driver in a day shall include at least 2 hours of off-duty time that does not form part of a period of 8 consecutive hours of off-duty time required by section 13.
In practice, this means that:
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You must take 10 total hours of Off Duty time within a day. A day is defined by the boundaries of the day start time defined in the Samsara Dashboard (e.g. midnight-midnight or noon-noon).
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You can take 8 out of the 10 hours as part of the Off Duty consecutive periods that are required to reset a work shift.
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You may take 2 out of the 10 hours outside of the consecutive shift reset periods in blocks of time that are greater than or equal to 30 minutes.
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You can take 2 hours as part of a shift reset if the shift reset time is more than 8 hours (say 10 hours). However, the 10 hours have to be within a day (for example, midnight-midnight or noon-noon).
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If your 8-hour shift reset overlaps with Off Duty time from the previous day in a way that the previous day does not include at least 2 exclusive hours that count only toward that day's Off Duty requirement, you may be at risk of a daily 10-hour violation. To help prevent this violation, Samsara will display a real-time alert before you go On Duty, prompting you to remain Off Duty for a period of time to avoid the violation.
Example: You finish a 10-hour Off Duty reset that starts late on Day 1 and ends early on Day 2. If 2 of those hours were already used to satisfy Day 1’s Off Duty requirement, you'll need additional Off Duty time to fully meet the requirement for Day 2. Samsara will alert you so you can stay Off Duty a bit longer and avoid a daily 10-hour violation for the previous day.
In the this example, there is one shift reset at the beginning of the day and another at the end of the day. The first one started on the previous day and ended on this day and the last one started on this day and continued until the next day. The driver can then take the remaining one hour from the Off Duty segment of 12 PM to 13 PM.
If the shift reset was 8 hours long, the driver would have been in daily Off Duty violation.
So, while driving in Canada South, a driver has to complete 10 hours Off Duty in a day (midnight-midnight) where:
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The driver completes 8 hours Off Duty, which can be parts of 2 shifts reset.
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2 hours of the Off Duty time can be taken in blocks of time that are greater than or equal to 30 minutes.
This example shows a driver’s HOS log over a 2 day period where the day window is from midnight to midnight. You can see that this driver took three shift resets of 8 hours each:
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The first shift reset started on the previous day and ended at 7 am on day 1.
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The second shift started on day 1 and continued till day 2.
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The third shift reset started on day 2 and continued till the next day.
As each of these resets are exactly 8 hours long, they can only fulfill the 8 hours consecutive Off Duty.
This example also shows a driver's HOS log. In this example, in a day (midnight to midnight) the driver took a total of 10.45 hours Off Duty and was still in HOS violation for not meeting the daily Off Duty requirement. Here, 0.75 means 75% of 60 minutes which is 45 minutes).
In addition, the Off Duty segments that are below 30 minutes (two 0.25 segments) can not be taken into consideration as part of the Off Duty requirement.
If the driver had taken another 30 minutes of Off Duty time or took the last shift reset as 9 hours long, this driver might have avoided the violation.
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