How Far In Minutes, How Far In Miles?
I often post hints to keep you legal if you operate commercial vehicles under the so-called "short haul" exemptions from the standard FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) HOS (Hours Of Service) or RODS (Record Of Duty Status) (log book) requirements. Wow! How’s that for an acronym-loaded sentence … do you think we have enough rules about trucking in the US, yet?
Anyway, to keep "in bounds" with the mileage restrictions on the local driving issues you only need a simple radios map centered on the place your vehicles will be departing and returning to. I detailed how you can make one quite simply with Microsoft MapPoint. But MapPoint has another very interesting similar function. It allows you to draw a "Drive Time Zone" around any point on the map in virtually a one-click operations. Very, very handy for business planning.
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