# Oilfield operations: 24-hour restart — Federal hours-of-service exemptions by commercial driver operation type

For Oilfield operations: 24-hour restart, cfr citation is 49 CFR 395.1(d)(1); who qualifies is drivers of commercial motor vehicles used exclusively in the transportation of oilfield equipment; what it exempts from is any period of 8 consecutive days may end with the beginning of any off-duty period of 24 or more successive hours; radius or condition is off-duty period of 24 or more successive hours; baseline limit (for context) is § 395.3(c)(2): an 8-consecutive-day period otherwise restarts only with an off-duty period of 34 or more consecutive hours, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-08-30.

- **Exemption:** Oilfield operations: 24-hour restart _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **CFR citation:** 49 CFR 395.1(d)(1) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Who qualifies:** drivers of commercial motor vehicles used exclusively in the transportation of oilfield equipment _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What it exempts from:** any period of 8 consecutive days may end with the beginning of any off-duty period of 24 or more successive hours _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Radius or condition:** off-duty period of 24 or more successive hours _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Baseline limit (for context):** § 395.3(c)(2): an 8-consecutive-day period otherwise restarts only with an off-duty period of 34 or more consecutive hours. _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> (1) In the instance of drivers of commercial motor vehicles used exclusively in the transportation of oilfield equipment, including the stringing and picking up of pipe used in pipelines, and servicing of the field operations of the natural gas and oil industry, any period of 8 consecutive days may end with the beginning of any off-duty period of 24 or more successive hours.

## 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/).