Truck Parking & Rest Areas in Northwood, IA

What the rules require

• Truck driver hours of service: the 11, 14, 30-minute and 60/70-hour rulesThe four limits that decide when a property-carrying driver must stop, the 34-hour restart, the two-hour…
• Split sleeper berth: how the 7/3 and 8/2 splits workHow a property-carrying driver can split the 10 hours off into two periods, which period stops the 14-hour…
• Truck parking by state: public spaces and truck stops, countedHow many public truck parking spaces each state has, which interstates carry the most, and where the truck…
• Personal conveyance rules: how far, when, and what gets drivers citedWhen a truck or bus driver may log a move as off-duty personal conveyance, why there is no federal mileage…
• The short-haul exemption: 150 air-miles, 14 hours and the time recordThe two short-haul exceptions in 49 CFR 395.1(e): the 150 air-mile rule for any driver and the 14/16-hour…
• The adverse driving conditions exception: two extra hours, and what qualifiesHow the adverse driving conditions exception in 49 CFR 395.1(b)(1) adds up to 2 hours of driving and 2 hours…
• Yard moves: what counts and how to log themWhen moving a truck in a yard can be logged as on-duty not driving instead of driving, how the ELD yard move…
• The agricultural exemption from hours of serviceHow the agricultural exception in 49 CFR 395.1(k) removes hours-of-service rules within 150 air-miles of the…
• Paper logbooks: when you may use one and how to fill in the gridWho may still use a paper log instead of an ELD under 49 CFR 395.8, including the 8-days-in-30 rule, pre-2000…
• Hours-of-service violations: fines, out-of-service orders and CSA pointsWhat happens when a driver breaks the 11, 14 or 60/70-hour rules or keeps a false log: the out-of-service…
• Public truck parking by state: spaces per 100 miles of interstate39,803 public truck parking spaces at 1,915 rest areas, ranked by state per 100 interstate miles and per…