In the event that something occurs to cause you to go ON DUTY NOT DRIVING during your 10 hour break do you just resume the 10 hour break or restart it if you had driven 11 hours the prior work period?
Needing some log help
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by lonewolf4ad, Mar 4, 2009.
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You have to restart it but I'd say you could use 2 hours of it as a split combined with 8 hours sleeper so you wouldn't lose all of whatever you had accumulated . I could be wrong though .
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Just got ahold of safety and I am screwed for today looks like. Since I had completed 11 hours of driving prior to the break I have to have 1 complete 10 hours break without interruption, any form of interruption results in having to restart the entire 10 hours
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What type of interruption was it? -
15 minute break for unloading.
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as 1 of my good friends would say "yuppers" lol. I guess it is at least a learning experience, The really crappy thing about it is that I wouldn't have had this problem if it wasnt for a wreck that bottlenecked traffic on 20/59 yesterday before I got to Birmingham. I made it to my drop point with less than 5 minutes of available drive time. So now I just have to sit here a couple more hours waiting, and pray I can get a dispatch tonight.
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Right or wrong, I would have unloaded when I got there or after my 10 hour break, unless they stamp the BOL with the unload time.
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I used to think the same thing if you interrupt your 10 you must start it over but DOT corrected me on this also. I was seeing drivers in violation of their 11 (being stopped by DOT for the violation) and the officer would shut them down for 2 or 8. So I e-mailed the big man that audits our company and he said I was wrong a driver can do a split whatever is prior to the 8 & 2 is cleared out.
Now our company policy is we make them take 10 however on special occassions I will let a driver go on. It might be home time, delivery whatever because it is legal.
Again you might want to follow company policy drivers.
Maybe DOT guy will come along and answer the same?? -
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