First restart after home time

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by razor1983, Jul 11, 2014.

  1. razor1983

    razor1983 Medium Load Member

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    Haha I am thoroughly confused now by the thread.

    The reason for wanting to take my restart this first Friday, is because I always do my restarts Friday and Saturday night. That way I can pick up load on Friday, drive a couple hundred miles (or till I get to my 70), then finish up on Sunday and Monday morning if necessary.
    The load that I'm under now, is close to 2900 miles with 3 drops it will eat up around 50 hours, leaving me with only 20 hours on Monday. I know I could recap but that limits me on when and what loads to take. I prefer to run on a "fresh" 70
     
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  3. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    That's because so many people are giving bad advice. Cranky Yankee is the correct answer.

    There a three criteria to meet to get a reset now.
    1. 34 hours off-duty/sleeper
    2. Two periods off from 1am to 5am (home terminal time, like all logging is)
    3. 168 hours since the start of the last reset.

    Since you had 3 weeks off, (somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 hours) that means you can log on-duty, work one minute, that log off-duty and take another reset. Kinda silly, but it would be 100% legal.

    The black and white of it is at http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/395.3 in section 2.d (Basically the last paragraph)

    -Steven
     
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  4. CondoCruiser

    CondoCruiser The Legend

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    Yep you can cancel the first 34 restart and let them hours drop naturally and then claim the second restart in remarks. Why were you even claiming the first restart? In 7 days they drop to zero anyways.



    You mentioned this load will take 50 hours? Are you running cross country? A single driver can't run both ways without taking a restart so you have to look forward to when you get there what you are going to do.
     
  5. turnanburn

    turnanburn Medium Load Member

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    This is a good discussion for drivers to have. There is a lot of potential for confusion with this situation and I'm including DOT officers on the list of the potentially confused. Being able to articulate the subtle complexities of these overcomplicated regulations is a survival skill.
     
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