Hours of service questions and answers

If you don't use all of your 70, you start getting hours back from a week ago. As you go along, only the hours you worked during the last 7 days including today count against the 70. So the hours you worked on the 8th day, you get back. If you don't go over 8 hours or so per day, you never run out.

 

That's strange, I was taught in school this year that you had to log a 15 minute minimum for pre-trip(regardless of whether you actually did it or not) but only had to flag a post-trip.

 

thanks Allow-me- hubby is driving and I am just trying to learn/understand it-guess it comes with actually doing the job/logs. As with many things seeing it makes it's easier to understand. I do apprechiate all the help!

 

This confused me the first time dispatch explained it.
My question is how do you record it on the reconciliation page??

thanks all!!!

 

My company requires logging 15 minute pretrip and flagging the post trip.

It makes more sense because a pretrip inspection we all been taught should be done before your trip. You engine oil is in the pan. A tire could go flat while you are sleeping. A light bulb can burn out while you sleep and you try to look pretty with your chicken lights burning all night, etc.

Otherwise, it would be called post trip inspection in the manual.

 

Nothing special to it. You just do what the log says and add up your hours for the last 7 days. If you have time left, you keep going. If you don't, you either wait until you do or sit for 34 hours and you get it all back.

 

What is "flagging" the post trip?

thanks

 

You record your hours day by day and add up the last 7 days for the 1st column, the 2nd column is 70 minus hours worked past 7 days (tells you hours you can work today)and the last column is the last 8 days added up.

You can use your calculator everytime or you can do a running recap.

say you worked in the last 7 days


10
8
11
10
6
8
10..... that's 63 hours (1st column) 7 hrs available (2nd column) 63 hrs last column, Next day you work 7 hrs
7.... counting back 7 days you drop the 10 and pick up 7, so you gain 3 hrs.

take the 3 and subtact it from the 63 and put that under the 63 which is 60. That means you have 10 hours available next day and your 8 day is now at 70

 

You just go from driving to the sleeper berth and draw your flag down with post trip inspection and your location. A post trip is basically a quick walk around leaving the thorough points out like under the hood. Usually a quick walk around the truck takes 1-2 minutes and it's not worthy of 15 minutes. (2 minutes is if you stop behind the trailer to take a leak)

To us drivers it's just a line and off to bed. Then get up after 10 hrs and do your real pretrip inspection logging 15 minutes..

You have to maximize your time. Even though it took you 30 minutes, 15 minutes is sufficient for the DOT. Same with driving, if you hit a traffic jam that delays you 45 minutes, still calculate and go by your average mph without the traffic jam. Bad weather I'll log real time because you might have to use the 2 hour rule to extend your hours.