Chapter § 2-58 29 CFR § 782.3. Drivers

• Jurisdiction: United States

2-58 29 CFR § 782.3. Drivers

(a) A "driver," as defined for Motor Carrier Act jurisdiction (49 CFR parts 390395; Ex parte No. MC-2, 3 M.C.C. 665; Ex parte No. MC-3, 23 M.C.C. 1; Ex parte No. MC-4, 1 M.C.C. 1), is an individual who drives a motor vehicle in transportation, which is within the meaning of the Motor Carrier Act, in interstate or foreign commerce. (As to what is considered transportation in interstate or foreign commerce within the meaning of the Motor Carrier Act, see Sec. 782.7). This definition does not require that the individual be engaged in such work at all times; it is recognized that even full-duty drivers devote some of their working time to activities other than such driving. "Drivers," as thus officially defined, include, for example, such partial-duty drivers as the following, who drive in interstate or foreign commerce as part of a job in which they are required also to engage in other types of driving or non-driving work: Individuals whose driving duties are concerned with transportation some of which is in intrastate commerce and some of which is in interstate or foreign commerce within the meaning of the Motor Carrier Act; individuals who ride on motor vehicles engaged in transportation in interstate or foreign commerce and act as assistant or relief drivers of the vehicles in addition to helping with loading, unloading, and similar work; drivers of chartered buses or of farm trucks who have many duties unrelated to driving or safety of operation of their vehicles in interstate transportation on the highways; and so-called "driver-salesmen" who devote much of their time to selling goods rather than to activities affecting such safety of operation. (Levinson v. Spector Motor Service, 300 U.S. 649 (1947); Morris v. McComb, 332 U.S. 422 (1947); Richardson v. James Gibbons Co., 132 F.2d 627 (4th Cir. 1942), aff'd, 319 U.S. 44 (1943); Gavril v. Kraft Cheese Co., 42 F. Supp. 702 (N.D. Ill. 1941); Walling v. Craig, 53 F. Supp. 479 (D. Minn. 1943); Vannoy v. Swift & Co., 201 S.W.2d 350 (Mo. 1947); Ex parte Nos. MC-2, 3 M.C.C. 665; Ex parte Nos. MC-3, 23 M.C.C. 1; Ex parte Nos. MC-2 and MC-3, 28 M.C.C. 125; Ex parte No. MC-4, 1 M.C.C. 1; Cf. Colbeck v. Dairyland Creamery Co., 17 N.W.2d 262 (S.D. 1945), in which the court held that the exemption did not apply to a refrigeration mechanic by reason solely of the fact that he crossed State lines in a truck in which he transported himself to and from the various places at which he serviced...