The rules and regulations adopted by the United States Department of Transportation in Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, part 395 in effect on the date specified in WAC
480-14-999 are adopted and prescribed by the commission to be observed by all common, private, registered and registered exempt carriers operating under chapter
81.80 RCW, except:
(1) A driver who is driving a motor vehicle in the hauling of logs from the point of production or in dump truck operations, exclusively in intrastate commerce, shall not drive nor be permitted to drive more than twelve hours following eight consecutive hours off duty. Such driver shall not be on duty nor be permitted to be on duty more than ninety hours in any period of seven consecutive days.
(2) A driver who is driving a motor vehicle in the hauling of agricultural products from the point of production on farms, exclusively in intrastate commerce, shall not drive nor be permitted to drive more than twelve hours following eight consecutive hours off duty. Such driver shall not be on duty nor be permitted to be on duty more than ninety hours in any period of seven consecutive days.
(3) The rules and regulations governing driver's daily logs prescribed in Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, section 395.8 and adopted in this section, do not apply to a driver who drives exclusively in intrastate commerce and wholly within a radius of one hundred miles of the terminal or garage at which he or she reports for work, if the motor carrier who employs the driver maintains and retains for a period of one year accurate and true records showing the total number of hours of driving time and the time that the driver is on duty each day and the time at which the driver reports for, and is released from, duty each day. A tacograph showing the required driver hourly information may be substituted for the required records.
(4) Carriers operating exclusively in intrastate commerce operating vehicles with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of less than ten thousand one pounds shall not be subject to the provisions of part 395 unless the vehicle is being used to transport hazardous materials of a type or quantity that requires the vehicle to be marked or placarded in accordance with WAC
480-14-390.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 80.01.040, 80.04.160, 81.04.160, and 34.05.310. 01-20-061 (Docket No. A-010827, General Order No. R-491), § 480-14-380, filed 9/28/01, effective 10/29/01. Statutory Authority: RCW 80.01.040 and 34.05.350. 95-24-001 (Order R-435, Docket No. TV-941290), § 480-14-380, filed 11/22/95, effective 12/23/95.]