The 2020 HOS final rule is still the clock you run on: the 30-minute break, 8/2 and 7/3 sleeper splits, two extra hours in bad conditions, a 14-hour short-haul window

What the notice actually said

The 30-minute break is still due after eight consecutive hours of driving, and on-duty not driving counts toward it. That line from 2020 is the one a scale officer checks against a dry van today.

Hours of service go back to 1937, and the 2020 version was rewritten after an ANPRM. The four changes are your legal log unless you are in a real pilot: the break, an 8/2 or 7/3 sleeper split, two hours for adverse conditions, and a short-haul window stretched to 14 hours with a longer radius.

Sleeper splits beyond 8/2 and 7/3 belong to the 2025 to 2027 pilot and are not part of this rule. Compliance was due 120 days after publication in the Federal Register. A 2026 press conference does not erase this paper.

The pilots are studies. Unless you are truly enrolled in one, this 2020 rule is the clock you run on a Chicago live load today.

Most of our 48-state dry van work is not short-haul. The wider air-mile exception is real for carriers who meet it. It is not an exemption for team drivers, and it is no excuse to skip the 30-minute break on I-80.

What it changes on Monday

We build appointments around this clock and not around a 2026 press conference. Detention still eats into the 14. When a window cannot be run legally, the answer is a different appointment, not a "Duffy hours" theory.

The ELD records the log. A break that is not in Part 395 is not ours to "interpret," and we do not offer a 5/5 sleeper split under this rule.

Read about booking a dock time and the 2026 pre-test. The comment round that led here was the 2018 ANPRM.

Shippers, tell us whether it is a drop or a live load and give us a window that works. Drivers, the log is the log. Desk: +1 (224) 877-0350.

What we will and will not do

Royser runs the 2020 hours-of-service rules on our ELDs. We do not redo appointment math because a pilot was announced, and we do not count adverse-plus-two as a favor for a late dock.

We will not offer any sleeper split other than 8/2 or 7/3 under this rule. Anything else is pilot talk and has no place on a rate confirmation.

A person is on the desk at +1 (224) 877-0350. When a window does not fit the 14, tell us early, because that is exactly what appointments are for.