You can go 8/2 or 2/8 as long as you keep drive time available. Example: you drive 2 hrs to the shipper. They take 2 hours to load you. You can log that either sleeper or off duty. With that 2 hrs, you've started a 10 hr break. You leave the shipper, and you drive 4 hrs. You feel like you need a nap. Park 8 hrs. Now when you log 8 hrs, you have to do that in the sleeper. Once the 8 hrs is up, you get 7 hrs back. You get 7 back because you burned 4 after you left the shipper. You've done an entire 10. The 2 at the shipper + your 8 hr nap, gets you a full ten. By doing it that way, the 2 hrs you've sat now means something.
Sometimes I do the 8 hrs first, then the 2. Doing 8 hrs works I'd you haven't driven that much and you got held up forever in a day, or if you want to pace yourself on running a load. You could run 5 hrs, sleep 8, regain 6 hrs after the 8, run another 5 hrs, chill for 2, regain 6, and just keep that cycle going. If you stopped 8 the first time, stop for 2 the next time, alternate. That's where the flexibility in HOS really is. I been running 8/2 or 2/8 all week, but if you use all or most of your drive time, the split is useless.
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