Canadian Daily Off Duty Deferral - Mobile App

Canadian Daily Off Duty Deferral - Mobile App

Overview

Canadian Daily Off-Duty Deferral Rule allows drivers to defer up to two hours of off-duty time to the next day.

A driver may defer the daily off-duty time over any two consecutive days, by deferring a maximum of two hours of the daily off-duty time from one day to the next.

Day 1 Refers to the day you will decrease your daily off-duty time.

Day 2 Refers to the day you will be increasing your daily off-duty time.

Let's review the steps to perform Off Duty Deferral using the BigRoad ELD Mobile App.

Deferring Time from Day 1 to Day 2

Pre-requisites for Deferring time:

• Driver is under any of the Canadian cycles

• Off-duty deferral option does not show up under US cycles

• Driver has up to 2 hours of daily off-duty time left in Day 1 that can be deferred to Day 2

Steps to Defer time (Day 1):

1. From the main page of the mobile app tap, Logs

2. Tap the Defer Time button

3. On the Off-Duty Deferral page, select the amount of time you wish to defer

a. You can tap the arrows to the left or the right to increase or decrease the amount of time by 15 min increments

i. Off-Duty events less than 30 consecutive minutes in length will not count towards your daily off-duty requirements

b. You can tap the time displayed in the center to specify the exact period

i. The amount of time displayed will be dependent on how much off duty time you have used already in Day 1

4. Once you have confirmed amount of time you wish to defer, tap the Save button

Log Changes

The following changes will happen to your logs:

a. Event will be recorded in driver’s daily log for Day 1

b. Daily Off-Duty Deferral Status and hours will be populated in Header section of the log on Day 1

c. Remarks section on driver’s daily log on Day 1 will state that the driver is deferring off-duty time under this section and that clearly indicates whether the driver is driving under Day 1 or Day 2 of that time

(“DAY 1: John Doe is deferring 2:00 Daily off-duty time under SOR/2005-313 Section 16”)

NOTE: The following Hours of Service (HOS) Rules will be updated and if not complied with, a violation will be present on your log:

• The shift reset of 8 consecutive hours off duty before and after Day 1 is still required

• The amount of additional time not deferred from Day 1 to Day 2 (the portion of 2 hours not deferred) is still required to be taken on Day 1 in minimum 30-minute blocks. (Example if a driver deferred 1 hour 30 minutes to Day 2, the remaining 30 minutes need to be taken on Day 1)

• The daily work shift rules for the day still apply

• The amount of off duty time taken between Day 1 and Day 2 must be at least 20 hours

• The total driving time in the Day 1 and Day 2 must not exceed 26 hours

• The amount of off duty time deferred is required to be appended to the next day’s shift reset, so if 2 hours were deferred, the shift reset after Day 2 must be 10 consecutive hours of off-duty

Confirming Off-Duty Deferral – Day 2

Pre-requisites to perform Off-Duty Deferral:

• Driver has deferred off-duty hour(s) from Day 1 to Day 2

• Driver logs into BigRoad ELD mobile app on Day 2

Steps to Confirm Off- Duty Deferral (Day 2):

1. Once driver logs into the BigRoad ELD mobile app on Day 2, an off-duty deferral confirmation dialog will be shown to the user.

• It will inform you how much time has been deferred from Day 1

• These additional off-duty hours must be combined with the 8 consecutive hours of core rest on Day 2 and must be taken together to stay compliant with Daily Off-duty deferral ruleset

2. Once you have acknowledged the message (tapped ok) the following message will display on the log

a. The header information will update to display the deferral status, and the amount of time that was deferred

Cancel Deferral

Pre-requisites to Cancel an Off-Duty Deferral:

• Driver has deferred off-duty hour(s) from Day 1 to Day 2

• Driver is currently on Day1 (Present day)

Steps to Cancel Off-Duty Deferral:

1. After you have started an Off-Duty deferral (Day1)

2. From the main BigRoad ELD page tap Logs

3. Tap the Cancel Deferral button

4. Tap the Cancel Deferral button again to confirm the action

5. Once you have confirmed that the Daily off duty deferral to Day 2 will be cancelled and the information in your header will no longer show a remark in the header and the off-duty deferral time and status will show ‘none’