Split sleeper help ASAP

I think your 8 hour portion freezes your 14. You "wake up" after 8 hours and have the same hours remaining of your 14 that you had when you started the 8 hours, ditto on the 11 hour clock. Now you drive all or most of your 11 away, those same hours are subtracted from your 14. Go to sleep for 2 hours and you wake up with new 14 & 11, or whatever hours you pickup if you are doing recap.

I stay away from split sleeper precisely because it's easy to make a mistake & hose your HOS.

 

you are going to get yourself in trouble.

looks more like you are working off of the 5.5 rather than the 7.5.

you do not gain the 2 hours to make 7.5. you are still stuck at the 5.5 until you hit the 10 hour reset.

least that is what i am reading

you also have to look forward into the day to make sure you do not go over the 14 after the 2 hours off.

elogs is supposed to protect you from yourself, but.......

 

There's a couple of free apps one could use without having to worry about the math. Just write what it says on your logs. I'm pretty sure you can just draw in the lines. But they do actually work like the real thing also. Drive time and all that jazz.

 

The simple way to remember it is that your 8 hours SB stops the clock, and after you finish your second part of the split (so you have your 10 hours) your day restarts to the end of the first part of your split break.

So when you get to the end of your second break, just calculate how many hours you have driven and worked since the end of the first break.

The 8 in the SB stops the clock, the 2 hour break does not stop the clock.

Oh, and you can take either the 8 or the 2 first, you just have to take both.
(and usually the 8 first makes more sense, but sometimes say taking a 2 before you are loaded, then taking the 8 to wait out the rush hour, works out better.)

 

Think of the 8 hour sleeper portion of a split as a "time out."

It does NOT earn you any time back, it just temporarily stops the 14 hr clock.

Whatever 11 hr and 14 hr time you had left before the 8 hr sleeper, you still have that much left before you have to take 2 or more hrs off-duty/sleeper.

 

DON'T bother splitting. Take it all. The HOS gets destroyed in addition to you are writing yourself violations that will bite back at you when someone looks at it.

The hours you have left after whatever split is still there until your reset kicks in. SO, don't split, just roll out your 11 hours. Then take the full sleeper time. The recap will tell you what you will have tomorrow after the 10.

To me to split is painting in corner. Not worth it anymore in today's hours.

 

Once a guy gets a good grasp on it, it can be a very useful tool. Especially if there was a delay getting loaded or unloaded and you got a 650 mile day ahead of you. In practice that can mean the difference of getting to the reciever first in line at 6 am and empty by 7 heading to the next load vs 10th in line at 8 and empty at noon and is to late to get another load that day.