# Travel time: passenger-carrying vehicle — Federal hours-of-service exemptions by commercial driver operation type

For Travel time: passenger-carrying vehicle, cfr citation is 49 CFR 395.1(j)(2); who qualifies is a passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle driver at the direction of the motor carrier is traveling, but not driving or assuming any other responsibility to the carrier; what it exempts from is such time must be counted as on-duty time unless the driver is afforded at least 8 consecutive hours off duty when arriving at destination, in which case he/she must be considered off duty for the entire period; radius or condition is unless the driver is afforded at least 8 consecutive hours off duty when arriving at destination; baseline limit (for context) is § 395.5 sets the separate limits for passenger-carrying vehicles; § 395.3 covers property-carrying vehicles, recorded from its source on 2026-08-28; source re-checked 2026-08-30.

- **Exemption:** Travel time: passenger-carrying vehicle _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **CFR citation:** 49 CFR 395.1(j)(2) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Who qualifies:** a passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle driver at the direction of the motor carrier is traveling, but not driving or assuming any other responsibility to the carrier _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What it exempts from:** such time must be counted as on-duty time unless the driver is afforded at least 8 consecutive hours off duty when arriving at destination, in which case he/she must be considered off duty for the entire period _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Radius or condition:** unless the driver is afforded at least 8 consecutive hours off duty when arriving at destination _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Baseline limit (for context):** § 395.5 sets the separate limits for passenger-carrying vehicles; § 395.3 covers property-carrying vehicles. _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> (2) When a passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicle driver at the direction of the motor carrier is traveling, but not driving or assuming any other responsibility to the carrier, such time must be counted as on-duty time unless the driver is afforded at least 8 consecutive hours off duty when arriving at destination, in which case he/she must be considered off duty for the entire period.

## 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/).