Takeaway: Despite this decision, the Fair Labor Standards Act has a broad overtime exemption that excludes most long-haul truck drivers from overtime pay.
Drivers must receive minimum wages for all hours worked, including hours in their sleeper berth when not sleeping, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided.
Motor carriers CRST Expedited and CRST International (collectively, “CRST”) provide trucking services across North America through a driver-training program for aspiring long-haul truck drivers. CRST’s team-based driver training program hires and trains inexperienced drivers in teams.
The team-driving model assigns to each truck two drivers who take turns driving the vehicle. CRST keeps its trucks in near continuous motion for multiple days, while complying with U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations limiting driving-time hours.
The DOT regulations specify that a driver may be on duty for a maximum of 14 hours at a time. Within this 14-hour period, a driver may drive only up to 11 hours; the remaining three hours may be spent taking care of nondriving responsibilities, such as vehicle loading or unloading. After 14 hours of on-duty time, a driver must take at least 10 consecutive hours of time off duty under DOT regulations, during which the driver cannot drive, load or unload the vehicle, or have other responsibilities relating to the truck or its equipment.
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