This original online Learn Laws® course, approximately 30 minutes long, provides FMCSA Hours of Service and ELD training for commercial driver's license (CDL) drivers of property-carrying and passenger-carrying vehicles.
The course reviews the Hours of Service rules in 49 CFR Part 395, electronic logging devices (ELDs), exceptions and exemptions, personal conveyance, and driver protections against harassment and coercion.
It is intended for experienced CDL drivers of trucks, buses and motorcoaches, and for the carriers and safety managers who assign this refresher. The course was developed by attorney and subject matter expert Andrew David Easler, Esq. A certificate is issued after the driver passes the final exam.
Separate training is available in FMCSA Driver Pre-Trip and Post-Trip Inspection Training.
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Published November 15, 2026
Andrew David Easler, Esq.
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Andrew David Easler, Esq.
Course Instructor
FMCSA Hours of Service and ELD Training is a self-paced online refresher on the Hours of Service (HOS) and electronic logging device (ELD) rules in 49 CFR Part 395, issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). It was developed by Andrew David Easler, Esq., an attorney and subject matter expert who prepared this training for commercial drivers.
The course reviews driving and on-duty limits for property-carrying and passenger-carrying drivers, common exceptions and exemptions, ELD procedures, personal conveyance and yard moves, and driver protections against harassment and coercion.
The course is intended for experienced drivers who hold a commercial driver's license (CDL) and operate property-carrying vehicles, such as trucks, or passenger-carrying vehicles, such as buses and motorcoaches. Carriers and safety managers can also assign it as refresher training on current HOS and ELD rules.
This course is refresher training, not entry-level driver training. It does not replace a carrier's own policies or training on a specific ELD, and it does not cover pre-trip or post-trip vehicle inspections. Drivers who need that refresher can take FMCSA Driver Pre-Trip and Post-Trip Inspection Training.
The course runs on our Learning Platform and takes approximately 30 minutes. It has five narrated video modules, each followed by a knowledge check and discussion prompts, and it closes with a course summary and a final exam. The knowledge checks include 29 items, made up of multiple choice, multiple select and true or false questions plus scored exercises.
Property-carrying drivers have an 11-hour driving limit within a 14-hour window. Passenger-carrying drivers have a 10-hour driving limit and a 15-hour on-duty limit. Under 49 CFR 392.3, a driver may not drive while illness or fatigue makes driving unsafe, regardless of the hours left on the clock. The split sleeper berth provision extends the 14-hour window but does not add driving time.
The course also covers ELD registration, data transfer and malfunction procedures, the difference between personal conveyance and a move made for the carrier's business, and how a driver files a harassment or coercion complaint under 49 CFR 386.12.
A certificate is issued after the driver passes the final exam. Content is based on 49 CFR as of September 2026, plus FMCSA guidance where noted.
Define on-duty time under 49 CFR 395.2, including compensated work for a person who is not a motor carrier.
Apply the 11-hour driving limit, the 14-hour window, the 30-minute break and the split sleeper berth provision.
Identify the 10-hour driving and 15-hour on-duty limits and how they differ from property-carrying rules.
Follow the correct steps for unassigned driving, data transfer and ELD malfunctions.
Apply common exemptions and tell permissible personal conveyance and yard moves apart from business use.
Distinguish harassment from coercion and describe how to file a complaint.
5 modules · 5 surveys · 1 exam
Module 1
Purpose of Part 395
Module 1 · Survey
Knowledge Check
Module 2
Property-Carrying Limits
Module 2 · Survey
Knowledge Check
Module 3
Passenger-Carrying Limits
Module 3 · Survey
Knowledge Check
Module 4
ELD Mandate
Module 4 · Survey
Knowledge Check
Module 5
General ELD Exemptions
Module 5 · Survey
Knowledge Check
Exam
End of Course Exam
Hardware
Software
Other requirements
The course is for CDL holders who drive property-carrying vehicles, such as trucks, or passenger-carrying vehicles, such as buses and motorcoaches.
Carriers and safety managers can also use it to give drivers a refresher on current Hours of Service and ELD rules. It is refresher training, not entry-level driver training.
The course takes approximately 30 minutes.
It has five narrated video modules. Each module is followed by a knowledge check, and the course ends with a final exam. Total time depends on how long each learner spends on the knowledge checks and exam.
Under 49 CFR 395.3, a property-carrying driver may drive up to 11 hours after 10 consecutive hours off duty. All driving must happen within the 14-hour window that starts when the driver comes on duty.
The 14-hour limit restricts driving, not work. A driver may keep doing other on-duty work after the 14th hour but may not drive.
Under 49 CFR 395.5, a passenger-carrying driver may drive up to 10 hours after 8 consecutive hours off duty and may not drive after being on duty for 15 hours. Off-duty time does not count toward the 15 hours.
The federal 30-minute break rule and the 34-hour restart are in 49 CFR 395.3, which covers property-carrying drivers only. Passenger-carrying drivers recover hours as days roll off their 7-day or 8-day period.
For property-carrying drivers, a qualifying split under 49 CFR 395.1(g) needs one period of at least 7 consecutive hours in the sleeper berth and a second period of at least 2 hours off duty, in the sleeper berth, or a combination. The two periods must total at least 10 hours, such as 7 and 3 or 8 and 2.
The qualifying rest periods do not count against the 14-hour window, but the split does not add driving time. Driving before and after each period still cannot exceed 11 hours combined.
Adverse driving conditions are snow, ice, sleet, fog, other adverse weather, or unusual road or traffic conditions. Under 49 CFR 395.1(b), they qualify only if the driver did not know and could not reasonably have known about them before the duty day or before driving after a qualifying break, or the carrier did not know at dispatch.
The exception allows up to 2 more hours beyond the daily driving and duty window limits. It does not apply to the 60-hour or 70-hour limits.
Under 49 CFR 395.34, the driver must note the malfunction and give the motor carrier written notice within 24 hours.
The driver must also reconstruct records of duty status for the current 24-hour period and the previous 7 consecutive days, unless the driver already has those records or they can be retrieved from the ELD.
A deregistered ELD is handled differently. The driver stops using it as an ELD, keeps records on paper or logging software, and the carrier replaces it with a registered device by the deadline in FMCSA's revocation notice.
Personal conveyance is off-duty movement of a commercial motor vehicle while the driver is relieved of all work. FMCSA guidance allows travel to a nearby, reasonable, safe location to get required rest after loading or unloading, if it is the first such location reasonably available.
Bypassing available rest to get closer to the next load, repositioning at the carrier's direction, and driving to a terminal after loading or unloading are not personal conveyance. For property-carrying drivers, personal conveyance does not stop or reset the 14-hour clock.
Under 49 CFR 390.36, harassment is a carrier's use of ELD information in a way it knew, or should have known, would cause an Hours of Service violation or a violation of the ill or fatigued driver rule. A carrier may still monitor productivity if the monitoring does not amount to harassment.
Coercion under 49 CFR 390.6 is a threat to withhold work or business, or to take adverse action, to force a driver to break the rules. It can come from a carrier, shipper, receiver or intermediary, and it is legally distinct from harassment.
Under 49 CFR 390.36(c) and 386.12(b), a written harassment complaint must be filed no later than 90 days after the event.
It is filed with the National Consumer Complaint Database or with the FMCSA Division Administrator for the State where the driver is employed. Coercion complaints are filed under 49 CFR 386.12(c).
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