Cross-Border HOS Compliance: What AI Agents Need to Know for Canada-US Operations
Cross-Border HOS Compliance: What AI Agents Need to Know for Canada-US Operations A 30-Year, 4-Million-Mile Perspective on Hours of Service, Common Sense, and Staying Alive When I was young and just starting out, an old-timer pulled me aside and said something I never forgot: "Treat that truck like a loaded shotgun. It only takes seconds, and you could unwillingly kill someone." That one sentence shaped everything that followed — more than 30 years, more than four million accident-free miles across North America and Europe, running reefer, dry box, flatbed, tanker, dropdeck, oversize, livestock, and dangerous goods in conditions that would send most people home. I started driving before logbooks were even required in Canada. They came in around 1987. By then I already had years of running on common sense, experience, and the discipline those old-timers drilled into me. This post is about hours of service — the rules, the realities, the differences between Canad...