Can someone clear up the hours you are behind the wheel per day and per week? I have heard many diffrent things. Thank you in advance!

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I will try to clear it up for you
You can drive up to a maximum of 11 hours a day but cannot exceede 14 hours on duty, your 11 hours must be completed in a 14 hour block. For instance if you go on duty at 8 AM you can drive a total of 11 hours between 8 AM and 10 PM. After that tour you must take a minimum break of 10 hours. The system we work by is once you hit 70 hours you must take a 34 hour break "off duty" after that 34 hour "off duty" your 70 hours available work time resets

Great question from the OP and an equally great anwer from carzntrks.... I was confused about the hours, too.

Thanks.

R/

Frat

Maxing out your 70 hours is over the course of 8 days. If you have the maximum of 70 hours you can't reset in 34 (only up to, say 69.75 hrs but not more). Not everyone has the time to reset, especially if you are under a load. If you don't reset, you will work off of your recap. Some logbooks have them printed on, but if not you can do it yourself to make sure you don't go over your 70 in 8 days. List your hours newest at the bottom. Each day put your latest hours of the day at the bottom of the list pushing up the past days, up to 7 days. The hours of the 8th day push the hours at the top of the list back into service for you. Sometimes you will see drivers in truckstops take off at midnight (or 11pm or 1am depending what time zone they log in) they just got more hours back and can move again.

The magic number is 8.75. If you never work more than that in a day you never run out of hours and can do that indefinately (not that you'd want to, but if you have to be out for a long time, it could help to keep you moving. It is important to most dispatchers to know how many hours you have for that day, and two or three in advance. There is nothing worse for them to put you under a load that you don't have the hours available to deliver on time.Don't forget, hos aren't just driving, but includes on duty not driving, i.e., pre trip, fueling, loading and unloading....or chaining up!

Split sleeper? I won't even go there....

&tIf I read FMC Reb 395.3 correctly, you can't drive past the 14th
hour, but can remain on duty. Of course who would want to?
Please straighten up this minor point for me.
Thanks: R.L.

You have a total of 14 hours available in a tour of duty no more than 11 hours driving and the rest can be on duty not driving. Or less driving hours and more on duty not driving, this is done for the long delays that are spent at the shippers and recievers that you are actually working and not either off duty or in the sleeper birth. After that 14 hour window, from the actual time you first went on duty you must take a minimum of 10 hours off duty.

It's my understanding that one's 14 allowable daily hours also includes any time one spends on breaks, lunch and dinner.

In other words, if one takes two 30 minute breaks and a one-hour lunch period during a day, they count as part of your allowable 14 hours.

Did I understand that correctly?

Yes................

Exactly correct once you go on duty you have a maximum of 14 hour window before you must be off duty for 10 hours, so if you only work a total 8 hours you need a 10 hour break then you will have 14 hour window again