34 hour Restart

I have already found the school I am going to attend. I am actually doing the entire course rather than a refresher. I have even narrowed down my top three picks of where to work. I would get the book, but I am out of the country right now. I should find out any day when I am going to return. Hopefully, it’s sooner than later.I was just hoping someone could give me a quick overview, but if it’s too lengthy I can wait until I get back stateside.

 

recap basically means you can not DRIVE after accumulating more then 70 hours of combined driving and on duty time, the last EIGHT days. So at midnight you pick up the hours that you did 8 days ago as the 9th day falls off. I realize I may have confused you more but there's plenty of log recap explanations on the "world wide inter-web"

 

what companies have you selected.....

please.dont say cr england

 

Not CR England. Schneider, Cargo Transporters or Conway. When I get back I will be able to look at some others more closely, but that's what I have for now.

 

Those are good but you should look at old dominion..

 

I had someone else tell me this. Maybe I will give them another look.

 

Thanks, STexan! It makes more sense than beforehand!

 

The 34 hr reset is where you take off for your break and have to have 2 periods of 1am to 5am off during that time period. Only one 34hr reset is allowed per 168 hrs, so it basically means you have to have about the same days off each week, which would be ok if you are running from a terminal or hub or local, but not so great if OTR all the time. According to when you get off beforehand will dictate how many hours you will be off before being legal to run again. If your last load delivered Friday morning, then you would have a lot more hours in off than someone who delivered later in the day.

Before this new rule went into affect, esp in the economic downturn in 2008, you could take 2 34hr resets in a week if you wanted, esp if you were left sitting between loads for long periods of time. Now you can't do that, only one counts.

Recap hours, if you can run about the same amount of hours, 8 or so a day, work out good, but if you have a goose egg on one day, it may mess the drive time up in the future. With recap you never really take set time off.

 

They don't appear to run close to where I will be living.