Question about the clock

It is 70 hours in 8 days, so if you average exactly 8.75 hours per day, you'll never need a reset. you will always work 61.25 hours per week.

if you work 11-14hour days, you will need to reset weekly, but your total hours worked per week will be higher (more miles).

 

If you are not sure of how the 11/14/70 clocks work, I would suggest you contact your Safety office and have them explain how those and the 34 hr reset works.

You should know at the end of your day how many hours you have left on the 70 hour clock. This will allow you to determine how many hours you have left to work the next day.

If you suddenly found 8 hours while you are on a 34 hr reset, then somewhere you missed something in your daily logs.

Mark

 

correct. The theoretical maximum hours you can drive interstate in a week is 81. to do that youd need to drive 11, take off 10, drive 11, take off ten... for 5 days straight, reset on the 6th & first part of the 7th day, and then drive 11 more.

Even if you had the freight scheduled to do it, you'll never have that perfect week because pti's, fueling, & drop/hook will take up some onduty time. still 70+ hours are doable and that extra 8+ hours would be 500ish more miles/week

 

Just keep moving ... you had the abilty to run 400+ miles, took a reset instead. Even if you run out your 11 the next day, you're still going to be a day behind and down a 150 or so miles for the week.

Manage your hours to the loads you get.

 

Forget the 80 hour because my company doesn't operate off that.

Huh?

 

IF you can depend on getting a restart. If not, I would manage your hours. I would take 9 hrs off (it never works out exactly like that) my 70 everyday, that way I could drive 7 days a week.

Mmmmm... you might want to check on getting layover pay if you're early. Detention pay usually is based off your appointment time. You are correct in that you should get to your destination as soon as possible to give yourself leeway if something should go wrong.