8 day 70 hour rule?

This kind of what I was thinking. Stricktly from a "making miles view", will you make more running as hard as you can then reset? Or, by balancing your hours to avoid the reset?

I'm thinking run as hard as you can, make the money while you have hours, hit the 70 and then sit back and take the reset. Won't this make the best use of the clock in the long run?

Or, is this like the turtle and hair senario. Slow and steady wins the race.

 

I checked a couple of senarios. To me it looks like you'll make more money in the long run if you keep hitting the 70. Don't worry about it, make the miles with each hour as it is available.

 

Your company may make that decision for you !

 

Yah..with all of the possible variables, it would be hard to try to manage. Just get your loads delivered on time and deal with the 70 clock when it looms closer seems like a simple strategy.

 

Whatever, but it means you can start the NEXT 14 hour day 3 hours earlier.

 

you almost always get hung up at some shipper or reciever and run out of your 14 hours before you have driven much on your 11 to balance out the other days you run hard. Today i have driven 3 hours but used 9 of my 14 so far and still sitting

 

You can work 24 hours a day and 100 hours a week if you want to . The only restricted are the driving hours .

 

I bet you can't provide a link to a regulation to confirm that .

 

The most money you can make would be for you do drive 11 hours. Hit the dock as your qualcomm tells you, you are out of time. Then they take 10 hours to unload you while you sleep but you get 8 hours of detention time.

When you do your reset does not effect pay. Downtime does. Getting the most driving done in the least amount of time maximizes your pay. Drive 6 - 11 hour shifts, use 4 hours for inspections and paperwork, do your 34 hour rest and start over. That is run hard legally. Since you gain 4 hours a day, having to sleep 10, you will run out of 70 hours in 5 days. That is 70/14 and that is why the rule is in place. The DOT wants you to work 5 days and off 2 like everybody else in the free world. If you prefer not to have a day off, honk as you go by my truck.

 

I personally would not play around with hours on the log book, it can come to bite you in the rear. I thought Roehl was into e-logging anyway.