# Sleeper berth split rest: passenger-carrying vehicle — Federal hours-of-service exemptions by commercial driver operation type

For Sleeper berth split rest: passenger-carrying vehicle, cfr citation is 49 CFR 395.1(g)(3); who qualifies is A driver who is driving a passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle that is equipped with a sleeper berth; what it exempts from is may accumulate the equivalent of 8 consecutive hours of off-duty time by taking a combination of at least 8 consecutive hours off-duty and sleeper berth time; radius or condition is (i) Neither rest period is shorter than two hours; (ii) The driving time in the period immediately before and after each rest period, when added together, does not exceed 10 hours; (iii) The on-duty time in the period immediately before and after each rest period, when added together, does not include any driving time after the 15th hour; baseline limit (for context) is § 395.3 applies to property-carrying vehicles; passenger-carrying drivers are held to the separate limits in § 395.5, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-08-30.

- **Exemption:** Sleeper berth split rest: passenger-carrying vehicle _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **CFR citation:** 49 CFR 395.1(g)(3) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Who qualifies:** A driver who is driving a passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle that is equipped with a sleeper berth _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What it exempts from:** may accumulate the equivalent of 8 consecutive hours of off-duty time by taking a combination of at least 8 consecutive hours off-duty and sleeper berth time _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Radius or condition:** (i) Neither rest period is shorter than two hours; (ii) The driving time in the period immediately before and after each rest period, when added together, does not exceed 10 hours; (iii) The on-duty time in the period immediately before and after each rest period, when added together, does not include any driving time after the 15th hour _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Baseline limit (for context):** § 395.3 applies to property-carrying vehicles; passenger-carrying drivers are held to the separate limits in § 395.5. _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> (3) Passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles. A driver who is driving a passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle that is equipped with a sleeper berth, as defined in §§ 395.2 and 393.76 of this subchapter , may accumulate the equivalent of 8 consecutive hours of off-duty time by taking a combination of at least 8 consecutive hours off-duty and sleeper berth time; or by taking two periods of rest in the sleeper berth, providing: (i) Neither rest period is shorter than two hours; (ii) The driving time in the period immediately before and after each rest period, when added together, does not exceed 10 hours; (iii) The on-duty time in the period immediately before and after each rest period, when added together, does not include any driving time after the 15th hour; and

## 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/).