Maxing Out The Hours

If you let a company pull that crap on ya..
1 the company sucks
2 you are CRAZY

 

A 34 hour resart on the road does not count against your home time.

Cuz you are not home.

 

OTR interstate drivers get 70 hours in 8 days. Hours come back on the 9th day, not the 8th. Your load will determine how you run. If you p/u a load on monday at 0700 and it delivers on wednesday at o5oo and it's 785 miles away and a live unload with a hard appointment you can run easy. If its a drop you could run hard, drop at noon on tuesday and reload. The money is made by saving your 70 hours to drive, not on duty not driving. Managing your time, combining tasks in 1 stop instead of 2. Fuel as part of your pre trip, scale as part of a fuel stop. The less time you use on duty not driving the more money you will make per week. You do not make any money while on duty not driving!!!!

 

See what? If you have to do a re-start on the road, Swift does not count that as home time.

 

This was a dirty joke........remember the days of no reset, manage your hours or park your truck.

Safe miles,

Larry

 

Maxing out your hours per eight-day cycle (simple version includes 0.5 hr/d on-duty not driving for PTI, fuel, etc., but not loading/unloading and assuming in each example the work day starts at the same time so the off-duty and/or sleeper berth hours will vary from 15.25 to 12.5 hours per day):

1. 11 hr/d driving (max. allowable per day) for 6 days, then a reset = 66 hours driving. In an eight-day cycle the driver gets a day and-a-half off.
2. 8.25 hr/d driving every day (can work same hours every day indefinately) = 66 hours driving. In an eight-day cycle the driver gets no days off.
3. 9.5 hr/d driving for seven days (maxing out 70 hours in seven days) = 66.5 hours driving. In an eight-day cycle the driver can take one full day off and re-capture hours from Day 1 on Day 9.

 

Need to recheck your math and theory ... first it's 8.75 hours a day to do 70 in 8 days. ... so that would be 96.25 hrs in 11 days vs the 121, not 88.

Second if you roll 8.75 in 11 days that is 11 days straight. If you burn hrs you have to take a reset. So to get 121 hrs it will actually take 12.5 days. In which time you get 109.38 hrs at 8.75 hrs working continuesly.

But wait there's more. After running your hrs out you will have to take another reset after the 13.5 day. So in actuallity you net 121 hrs in 14 days. In that same 14 days you can run 122.5 hrs conserving your hrs.

So net/net ... the math will work out the same however you decide to run. It really comes down to what you want to do ... In reality, the loads and the time on the loads will dictate how you use your hrs.

 

Yup--remember them all to well--because I have never done a 34 hour deal anywhere but home--still log the old way--sometime have to show 24 off out west to let hours come around again--but never 34--still do not see what all the fuss is about

 

Thank you, at least I'm not the only one that figured you could drive more in a two week period by conserving and not running hard. Sometimes you have to run hard just depends on the load you're on. It would be ideal to only work the 8.75 everyday but that's just about impossible. Some days you run your 11 hours some days you only have to drive 6 just how the cookie crumbles so to speak.