Help... logging sleeper berth and off-duty

The 14 hr clock is always ticking. That's like saying the 24 hr clock stops. Even when you take the 8 hr break, and it extends your day it's ticking. Just like now. This place is eating up all my time

Correction. Only a full 10 hr break actually stops the clock. The Split sleeper birth just extends the clock.

 

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/administration/fmcsr/FmcsrGuideDetails.aspx?menukey=395

exclude = prohibit

 

so glad im on paper.......

 

Exclude does not equal prohibit.

 

Exclude from the calculation means sleeper time of at least 8 hours does not count against the 14 hour clock.

That is the one and only thing that temporarily stops the 14 hour clock. Everything else counts.

 

8 hours sleeper berth is the pause button on your logs, 2 hour break is the save point. Maybe I've been playing too many video games since Christmas...

 

An 8 hour sleeper berth break stops the 14 hour clock.

For example. You start at 6am. Your 14 hours is up at 8pm. You eat up 7 hours between lines 1,2,3 and 4 and log into the sleeper at 1pm at a lazy shipper. They tell you to stay in your truck and out of the way. 8 hours later a guy with a sour looking face and a lazy eye bangs on your door to come get your paperwork. It's now 9pm. You are an hour past your 14 you're SOL right? Wrong! You snoozed for 8 hours in the sleeper. Your 14 hour clock got extended to 2am. Let's say you drive till 11pm. Decide to park, grab a shower, bite to eat, chase a lot lizard or two and burn about 2 hours off duty. It's now 1am. Crap you deliver at 6am and are 5 hours away. Your 14 hour clock ends at 2am, in an hour, right? And you only have 2 hours left to drive, right? Wrong! You now can recalculate the beginning of your 14 hour and 11 driving hours to 9pm, the end of the 8 hour sleeper berth break. Your 8 hour sleeper break and 2 hours off duty satisfied the 10 hour break requirement. That means you have 9 hours left to drive and 10 on your 14. Get to it son and make that delivery!

 

395.7 is my new favorite

 

So what's the deal on the 30-minute break? Does that count against the 14 hours? Or does it stop the clock? And I have to take it sometime during the first 8 hours of my day? Is this correct? So I can drive to my pickup ( a one-hour drive) get loaded (takes about 15 min.) and before hitting the road I can 'rest' for 30 min and that will fulfill the requirements? Because it's a 7 hour drive to my drop and I sure as hell don't want to have to stop and twiddle my thumbs when I'm only 30 min from the drop.

Been going round and round with my safety dept over these idiotic rules. I just don't understand why if I'm in the bunk for two, or four or five hours it counts against my 14. It's BUNK TIME. Not driving. Not working. What the hell were those morons in Washington thinking when they came up with this?

 

You just answered your own question!