2 hour off duty time

This seems to contradicte your statement I knew I had seen it somewhere
Question 25: May sleeper berth time and off-duty periods be combined to meet the 8-hour off-duty requirement?
Guidance: Yes, as long as the 8-hour period is consecutive and not broken by on-duty or driving activities. This does not apply to drivers at natural gas or oil well locations who may separate the periods.


Yes, as long as the 8-hour period is consecutive and not broken by on-duty or driving activities
Now reading this off duty is as good as sleeper berth. There's no time amount given, just as long as it's off duty.
Following this and adding in the new rule provision you sit in passenger seat for 2 hours off duty and spend
8 more off duty and you'd have your ten.

 

Well if it's the old rule? Why is it on the FMSCA site today??
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regu...fmcsr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=395.1&guidence=Y
You may not want it to be that way but it's published online today and it will hold up to legal review.

You may not like it but it states this clear as day. Sleeper berth and off duty time may be combined just as long as it's off duty.
Intentions are irrelevant since they're not put into words. Normally this wouldn't be of any consequence to me but for the next week or two it maybe of great use. I just try and use their useless rules to my advantage.
Yesterday I was suprised up in Tn the police up there wasn't even aware of the new HOS changes.
How am I wrestling anything when i read and apply what lahood & co. have posted for the world to see?
If it was something the police could use to lighten my wallet they'd be all over it and it would be great.
Where's the fairness in your way of thinking?

 

Thats not what it states and it's not for oil field. Oil field is mentioned seperately.
Read the whole section it has guidance on many area's of HOS.
Just cause it's not what some may want to believe off duty and sleeper berth are considered the same by the wording.
They posted it I just read it and look for ways to use it. I read all the guidance before and after.
when they changed the HOS, if they intended it not to be used that way they shouldn't leave it there.
The way it's written you can take 8 eight hrs. off duty and 0 hrs. sleeper and get 8hrs.
The new HOS state you can do the other 2 in passenger seat and 8 in sleeper berth well, then guidance states that off duty can be combined to get 8 with no set numbers. So if theres a problem it's not with me. It's with the ones who made and posted this useless stuff for us to follow. Intent means nothing only whats written and it's right there for everyone to see.