Yeah… that’s illegal. There doesn’t appear to be any rules about hours per day, but there’s definitely rules about hours per week. You are legally entitled to overtime pay after 40hrs in a week,.
The employee’s duties must include the performance, either regularly or from time to time, of safety-affecting activities on a motor vehicle used in transportation on public highways in interstate or foreign commerce. Employees must perform such duties as a driver, driver’s helper, loader, or mechanic. Employees performing such duties meet the duties requirement of the exemption regardless of the proportion of “safety affecting activities” performed
Log book rules are a tiny complicated for most to understand.
However, FLSA ISN’T that complicated. If you don’t cross state lines, if you’re not driving a truck that weighs at least 10,000+ Pounds all the time then you’re likely intitled to OT. The Motor Carrier Exemption isn’t really for every office joe that happens to have a DOT medical because they sometimes move a box truck.
The last time I looked into the salary exempt restrictions it had to be your primary job for the exemption to apply, if you are averaging most of your work time not doing exempt things you should file a complaint, worst case scenario is they say ‘yea tough shit it’s exempt’
Seems pretty clear cut unfortunately. “Employees performing such duties meet the duties requirement of the exemption regardless of the proportion of “safety affecting activities” performed”
I’d recommend you join a union so you can change your conditions at work, but you’ll have to know a thing or two about getting your coworkers onboard to make meaningful change.