# Driver-salesperson — Federal hours-of-service exemptions by commercial driver operation type

For Driver-salesperson, cfr citation is 49 CFR 395.1(c); who qualifies is any driver-salesperson; what it exempts from is The provisions of § 395.3(b) shall not apply; radius or condition is whose total driving time does not exceed 40 hours in any period of 7 consecutive days; baseline limit (for context) is § 395.3(b): 60 hours on duty in any 7 consecutive days, or 70 hours in any 8 consecutive days, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-08-30.

- **Exemption:** Driver-salesperson _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **CFR citation:** 49 CFR 395.1(c) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Who qualifies:** any driver-salesperson _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What it exempts from:** The provisions of § 395.3(b) shall not apply _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Radius or condition:** whose total driving time does not exceed 40 hours in any period of 7 consecutive days _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Baseline limit (for context):** § 395.3(b): 60 hours on duty in any 7 consecutive days, or 70 hours in any 8 consecutive days. _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> (c) Driver-salesperson. The provisions of § 395.3(b) shall not apply to any driver-salesperson whose total driving time does not exceed 40 hours in any period of 7 consecutive days.

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-III/subchapter-B/part-395/subpart-A/section-395.1

Last verified: 2026-08-30. Review by: 2027-08-28.
Part of [Federal hours-of-service exemptions by commercial driver operation type](https://referencesource.org/federal-hours-of-service-exemptions-by-operation-type/).