Really? Samsara STILL hasn't fixed the 14-hour clock bug?

After taking nearly two years off I was disappointed to discover recently that Samsara's ELD still fails to correctly pause the 14-hour clock when the long rest period consists of 10 or more hours. There is no ambiguity in the HOS rules; as a programming hobbyist, I have a pretty good idea how easy it would be for their IT department to fix this bug that's now over five years old. Why hasn't it been done? This is a really big deal because there are probably still lots of drivers who don't fully understand how the split sleeper berth rule works that are passively letting Samsara steal driving hours away from them.

 

Samsara is requiring that drivers toggle some setting to get their app to not tell them they're in violation when they're not? That would be pretty ridiculous if they were.

If you have 7+ hours of contiguous sleeper berth time in a 10-hour rest break, then 3+ hours of contiguous off duty time during your work shift that follows, the 14-hour clock that started ticking when your work shift began gets paused for those 3+ hours. However, if your 10-hour break had no such contiguous sleeper berth time, your 14-hour clock keeps ticking during those 3+ hours. (That's the easiest example to use. The reverse one where the 3+ comes first and the 10-hour comes after is more complicated because the pausing of the 14 during the 3+ is retroactive, once the contiguous 7+ hours of sleeper berth time is logged.)

 

Yes that's the correct thing to do, and it's what I do. My post should have acknowledged this better. It was implied when I wrote that some drivers are passively letting Samsara cheat them out of driving time, but I should have gone further and implored them to ignore the Samsara as long as they themselves are confident that they haven't broken any HOS rule.