Link to log book examples on new hours of service! Goes into effect 7/1/2013

Of course, that's why I qualified my example by saying I usually have 10 hrs left on my 70 when I break. I could start any time I wanted before 0500 on Sunday with 10 hrs available and 10 hrs coming back at midnight every day until I get home again on friday. I wouldn't even need a restart with the two consecutive periods of 0100 fo 0500 required for a restart under the new rules.

 

FMCSA 395.3 (d) ends by saying " When a driver takes more than one off-duty period of 34 or more consecutive hours within a period of 168 consecutive hours, he or she must indicate in the Remarks section of the record of duty status which such off-duty period is being used to restart the calculation of 60 hours in 7 consecutive days or 70 hours in 8 consecutive days."

I would assume that if we are required to mark which period we use as a restart, then the EOBR's should allow us to select as well. (it should make us choose really)

You guys were all correct btw. I double checked my question, and for the guys who get home every weekend but sometimes leave on Sunday and some times on Monday, what will happen is when they leave out on Sunday they will likely just have to work off their recap that week and wait til the following weekend to get another 34 hr restart.

 

I listened to an hour long program last week when Dave Nemo (Road Dog Radio) had with two guys from FMCSA discussing these new rules in detail.

The biggest confusion about the 34 hr rule is drivers think they have to take a mandatory 34 hr break under the new provisions. As I already said, you don't have to.

 

if your on e logs you could select to not take a 34 restart with the edit button by droping yourself down to line 4 for 15 min somewhere in the middle of the 34hrs.

 

well, I started out before there was such a thing as a 34 restart, so we had to total 7 days all the time. But some newer drivers have never had to figure out which hours "drop off" and get added back to your 70 clock every day, a lot of companies are content to teach them to take a 34, start in the morning and try to get done before your 14 runs out. I think it's going to take a lot of re-education to implement these rules. Probably a good line of work to get into right now for someone who likes to teach and has the appropriate knowledge and skills to do so. Dispatchers and load planners need to be learning this stuff as well as the drivers.