Personal Conveyance (PC)

Personal Conveyance is a duty status for the US and Canada defined by the ELD mandate as Off Duty drive time while driving a commercial motor vehicle doing non-work related activities.

In Canada, you can claim up to 46.5 mi (75 km) for Personal Conveyance. To enforce the maximum distance allowed per day, you can Enable Personal Conveyance Auto-Duty as part of your HOS Settings (Settings > Compliance). When this setting is enabled, Samsara automatically transitions drivers to On Duty Driving status when the driver exceeds the daily allowable Personal Conveyance driving distance.

The Samsara Driver App displays a prompt to alert drivers about the transition and drivers cannot edit their status to a non-driving status in the app. After reaching the daily allowance, drivers will not be able to select Personal Conveyance as a duty status for the rest of the day.

Enable Personal Conveyance as a Duty Status

The ELD mandate requires that carriers be able to configure the availability of the Yard Move and Personal Conveyance special duty statuses on a per-driver basis. After you enable Canada HOS settings, you can enable the applicable duty status in the driver profile settings. You can also apply the settings in bulk using the driver import process. After you enable the duty status, the Samsara Driver App displays the status tile as an available selection.

1. Select the Settings icon () at the bottom of your Fleet menu to view dashboard settings.

2. Select Fleet > Compliance.

3. For Canada compliance, ensure that you Enable Canada HOS.

4. Enable Enable Personal Conveyance Auto Transition for your region.

5. Enable Personal Conveyance for one or more drivers:

   Enable Personal Conveyance for a driver:

   1. Select the Settings icon () at the bottom of your Fleet menu to view dashboard settings.

   2. Select Organization > Drivers.

   3. Locate the driver for which you want to configure the personal conveyance duty status.

   4. In the row for the driver select ( ... ) > Edit.

   5. In the Hours of Service section of the driver profile, enable the duty status for Personal Conveyance (PC).

      

   6. Save your changes.

   Enable Personal Conveyance for multiple drivers:

   1. Select the Settings icon () at the bottom of your Fleet menu to view dashboard settings.

   2. Select Organization > Drivers.

   3. From the More Actions menu, Download CSV. Samsara creates a CSV file containing all drivers and driver profile settings.

   4. Edit the CSV file to set the ELD Personal Conveyance (PC) field to TRUE for the relevant drivers.

   5. On the Drivers page, select More Actions > Upload CSV.

   6. Upload your CSV file.

   7. Preview and then Confirm the changes.

Effect of Engine Restarts on Personal Conveyance Status

Per the ELD Mandate, the PC and YM duty status will reset after an engine restart. When the ELD detects that the vehicle has stopped and the vehicle has had an ignition cycle (turned off then turned back on), the ELD surfaces a prompt that provides the driver the option to stay in PC or YM.

Note

If the driver navigates away from the Samsara Driver App or closes it such that the app is no longer active, the prompt does not display. In this case, the driver must manually reselect PC to continue operating in PC status. We recommend training drivers to always make sure they select PC or YM after any engine restart event.

If the driver takes no action, the Samsara Driver App switches the driver status to Off Duty if they were in PC, or On Duty if they were in YM. If the vehicle moves again, the driver is put into Drive.