Mileage Question

A week is 7 days. Most of the carriers you see advertising are irregular route truckload carriers that operate 7 days per week. That means if you are available all week you could make 2200 to 2500 miles.

As for the maximum hours available in 1 week it depends on how you work your book. The short answer is 70 hours in 8 days but you could actually work more in a calendar week by utilizing the 34 hr reset provision.

Most carriers will expect you to be out 2 to 3 weeks at a time and will permit the driver 1 day off for each week they are out.

In the case of regionalized carriers they will advertise "home on weekends" but what they really mean is enough time at home to achieve a 34 hour reset and then back on the road.

 

Home on weekends, I went off duty at 2am sat. I will go back out at 2pm sun.
I was home on the weekend!
Weekend = 34 hour reset.
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Thank you for this...as you can imagine, I'm contemplating this (trucking)..and I was really not sure what a 34 hour reset was...I never asked either..but thanks anyway....this thread has been very helpful!

 

Not always. I am home between 4-8pm each Friday an usually leave around 5pm on Sunday. I get 2600-3000 miles a week. I am sure my company is the exception, but with so many companies out there, with a little legwork, you can find one. It has been said before, but the best companies rarely advertise. You have to find them.

 

a 34 hour reset is never required......you can always just get 10 hours off between going on duty as long as you dont exceed the 60 hours in 7 days or 70 hours in 8 days rules.......but if you do take 34 hours off, it resets all of your clocks, regardless of how long you have been on duty before then

im not the best at explaining this but i tried

 

Based on the operation, you may be running 60hours/7days or 70 hours/8days. These are driving hours and on duty/not driving hours. A reset isn't required like Freebird said.

Using one of these you basically end up with a minimum of a day off each cycle. Otherwise you would exceed the hours. Each day whatever hours drop off, you can drive that day.

This is how it used to be done with 10 hours of driving allowed each day. We didn't have a reset back in the day. If you wanted your hours to go down, you took days off.

I have a link from another thread, I don't know how good it is. Check it out:

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/topics/hos/index.htm

 

......no I'll fix it for ya!


Day 1 You pick up a load / paper work head and drive 11 + loading = 14 hours then you stop take 10 hour break for a total of 14 hours

Pre-Trip= .25
Load= .25
Drive time= 11
Total= 11.5hrs

Day 2 Get up drive 11 hours, stop and take 10 hour break for a total of 11 hours

Pre-Trip=.25
Drive Time= 11
Total=11


Day 3 Get up, fuel truck and drive 4 hours, unload / load takes 2 hours, then drive for 7 hours then stop for ten hour break for a total of 13 hours

Pre-trip/fuel= .25
Drive time=11
Load= .25

Total= 11.5



Day 4 Get up and drive for 11 hours, stop and take 10 hour break for a total of 11 hours

Pre-trip= .25
Drive=11

total=11.25

Day 5 Get up, fuel truck and drive for 8 hours and unload / load for a total of 11 hours.

Pre-trip/fuel= .25
Drive= 8
Drop/hook=.25

total= 8.5


Now you are at 60 hours for a 5 day period. So at this point you have to take a 34 hour restart?


Your total is only 53.75.

You only counting on duty and drive time, NOT off duty and Sleeper time

You are NEVER required to take a 34, the 8th day of your week you start rolling over the hours from last week OR you can take 34 hours off and get a whole new 70 hours




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