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Man, that's gotta suck! It's just got to make you feel about to get picked apart. Good luck to you. I'm sure you'll be just fine.

 

What sucks even worse is sometimes the drivers don't understand what's riding on your shoulders when you're having to be a d##k, my husband use to complain all the time. Not to say drivers aren't under alot of preasure as well.

 

Ok when driving otr so many people say that if you stop every 3-4 hours for bathroom and stretch a little you will eat up 2 hours that you do not have to spare. I asked them well can't that be used for the two hour portion of the 10 hour break.
My question is can you take 4 30 min breaks for the bathroom stretching and log it as you do it and how would you log it off duty or what?
I was told in school yes but some on here has told me no that is wrong you can not do that. In school we logged all of our breaks even if they were just 15 min.
I would like you to get clairification on this.
I do know that the 8 hour sleeper break can not be broken up but I was told the two hours can be broken up as you want or need to.

Thank You in advance logs
From a person soon to be on the road with a trainer.

This question is for logs only
please no one else reply to this question.

 

Hey logs, pull your desk around back for a level 1! Now you know how drivers feel!

 

The 3 magic #'s is 11, 14, & 70. Logs explained this pretty good, even tho she don't drive! You only wanted her response, now that she has responded you get mine. As was brought up in another thread the things new drivers don't understand is how all the times stack against your 14. Your problem comes from not being able to drive past 14 hours of being on duty. You have 11 hours to drive in, but if you have burnt 8 hours on duty not driving take 8 away from 14=6. Your 11 hours of driving is now 6. You can thank all the slow moving dock workers and people that ate your clock. Tick-tock. Or all the flats or whatever it was that burnt your time on duty not driving. This is why veteran drivers say keep the door closed.

Now Logs I want to throw a curve ball here. Explain the 8th day gain where you gain the 1st day's hours back on your tick tock. Just when the new guys thought they had it along comes an old timer monkey!

 

thank you both
Now I will have to ask my company that ill be going with if I can log my breaks off duty.
I will also ask them if I can log the loading/unloading by another person as being off duty and stay in the sleeper.

I will ask about breakdowns too as long as I can stay hid away from the wheel.

Because if I understand right as long as it as off duty it does not count against my 11, 14, 70 hr clock.

 

Your welcome. You can extend it only by a sleeper berth. You can't stop the tick tock. That 14 is a killer. It is really hard to explain. The 34 restart is where you gain your time back. There is a gain from the 8th day, but only older drivers will be aware of this. I no longer drive, but was out on the road when the first change was made. in 2004 from 10 hrs driving and 8 in the sleeper to 11 and 10. It has changed again since then. logs would be better at explaining this. I can make it work on paper, but have a hard time explaining it. Your trainer will be able to fine tune your logging and you can always buy pamplets or small books at truckstops to help explain it. Recapping comes in to play and really helps you manage your time. I always made a note so I could see when I needed to be shutting down and had it on my dash so I could keep up with my time.