How many hour of driving can two (2) drivers before they need to find a motel for 10 hours off?
Why can't one driver use the rear seating area as a sleeping berth?
Why doe a sleeping berth need to be 78" in a Hot Shot unit?
Hot Shot team drivers, why can they not sleep in the pickup?
Discussion in 'Expediter and Hot Shot Trucking Forum' started by john.page3, Jan 4, 2019.
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I think a better question would be why are you trying to use a hotshot for a team operation? And where did you get that 78" number from?
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Assuming you are subject to FMCSA rules:
There is no real advantage to having a second driver if you do not have a qualifying sleeper.Numb, brian991219 and Lite bug Thank this. -
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The drivers are required to have 10 hours off-duty. Where and how they do it is up to them... so long as they don't claim sleeper berth.
§395.2 DefinitionsSince the vehicle is moving, (i) is disqualified. Since there is no qualifying sleeper, (ii) is disqualified, nor can either driver even claim the 2 hours allowed under (iii).
On-duty time means all time from the time a driver begins to work or is required to be in readiness to work until the time the driver is relieved from work and all responsibility for performing work. On-duty time shall include:
(4) All time in or on a commercial motor vehicle, other than:
(i) Time spent resting in or on a parked vehicle, except as otherwise provided in §397.5 of this subchapter;
(ii) Time spent resting in a sleeper berth; or
(iii) Up to 2 hours riding in the passenger seat of a property-carrying vehicle moving on the highway immediately before or after a period of at least 8 consecutive hours in the sleeper berth;
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Back seats of pickups are not. What you can do is kit build sleepers onto the area where there was a back seat in that part of the cab. -
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The sleep berth setups that are for sale are so that
drivers as a team could run continuously.
That is not the issue.
As a single driver, why can't you sleep in the rear seat area of your pick. And log I as sleep time.
No one is driving the truck, so why do you need a safety net? Why does the sleeper need to be 78" long? And the need for safety door releases, what is a matter with what the truck has, all are in reach for an emergence?
The sleep berth regulations is set to conform to a Class 8 tractor which this is not.
For single driver the regulations are excessive and one of the reason the Hot Shot trucking was set up to begin with. So one person could run and make money without the added expense.
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