Personal Conveyance Rules Fleets Cannot Ignore

Personal conveyance sounds like a technicality until a driver logs off-duty miles in a loaded truck and someone asks who's liable. Lytx's explainer is US-focused (FMCSA, not DVSA) but the discipline transfers: PC covers off-duty use of a commercial vehicle, shifts commonly run 11 to 14 hours, and crucially operators aren't legally obliged to permit it at all. The FMCSA now allows PC in a loaded trailer, dropping the old empty-trailer-only rule, with no cap on distance - as long as no work task happens en route. For UK fleets running US-facing operations or just tightening telematics policy, the lesson is the same: PC is a discretionary company rule, not a statutory right, so write it down and log it properly rather than leaving drivers to interpret it themselves.