Managing the 70 hour rule various strategies

Actually if you start driving at 0000 (midnight) and only show 1 15 minute PTI and no other breaks except for your 10 you can legally drive 13.5 hours in 1 24 hour period. Unless you try to split sleeper then your on your own as to figuring that one out!

But logging it that way can raise a DOT's eyes!

 

No , the union drivers go to the food bank when they go on a strike that ends with no gains and taking pay cuts and giving up benefits .
The Teamsters are finally admitting they can't win in a strike .

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/09/22/daily52.html

 

Hey, can I "FOE" you here? LOL

 

can you send

 

Hey Rollover, where did you get the DDL software, who makes it?

Thanks

 

DriverDailyLog.com

 

I worked with a guy who, once upon a time, hauled lots of government loads. He had one and they said it had to go from Baltimore to L.A. in a day, so they put it on a plane and flew it. His log showed him in MD on one day and CA the same day. The DOT really raised an eyebrow to that one!

 

I used to drive about 14 hours, log off duty for all waiting, loading and unloading and only log 10 hours a day. (Actual driving: 45mph average for 14 hours= 630 miles, logged: 10 hours at 63 MPH average= 630 miles. Looks good on paper. That crap can drive you crazy....many years later, my dispatcher yelled at me for not 'running legal'. OK, I'll run legal. I found out, that in the Northeast, my average speed per day, actually going the speed limit and sitting in traffic is around 45MPH! I drove about 450 miles a day and when I had to wait 10 hours to get loaded, I logged it on duty, and loading & unloading I logged on duty no matter how long it took. I couldn't get more than 2000 miles a week and the dispatcher was always on my case. Oh well, you want legal, this is what you get. I'm too old to run that hard anymore, there's more to life than money! I can log almost 900 miles in a day, legally, but F that, I'm too tired!

 

Nicely done Rawlco, and while true and an excellent example...... motor carriers are not going to allow us any options while operating their equipment. They book loads based on perceived location and availability. They want their stuff occupied 70 hrs in 8 days or it's underutilized. To quote one former FM, " There's 168 hrs in a week, I want the truck to roll 100 and the mechanic underneath it the other 68"

 

Our company says we should use the 10-10 rule. We run teams so one person is on duty/driving for 10 hours then they switch. That includes fuleing, pre trips, post trips everything. That way you never run out of hours, you always keep moving and no one has to driver the same times every day. its a pretty good set up if it works out like that.