September 1 was the day the COVID-19 emergency declaration became a much narrower proposition when it comes to regs waived for carriers utilizing the exemption -- only drive-time regs are now waived, and carriers running under COVID exemptions are required to log time, with the suggestion truckers annotate the record. Nearly a quarter of Overdrive's audience here reported using the emergency waivers on nearly every load in early September, though most readers hadn't used them at all since they came into effect in March of 2020 amid the toilet paper and grocery shortages that followed panic buying at the start of the pandemic.