How is the 34/reset?

the 34 hours are your to do as you see fit . it may be hanging out and just reading a book or watching tv or telling lies with a room full of drivers.

you can get a room if you want to pay for one or you can go sight seeing the options are endless.

 

In an 8 day period you are only allowed to be on duty for 70 hours. If you hit the 70 hour limit you have TWO options. One is to do a 70 hour reset. The other, and this is the one that you have to understand if you want to make money, is to wait until midnight when you pick up hours.

The 34 hour reset is nice. You park your truck at a truck stop and go off on your bicycle and see the world. When you come back someone has broken into your truck and stolen everything they can. You do your reset when you are home. Period.

To make money you have to protect your on duty time. Log off duty as much as you can. With a qualcomm this is easy enough, just change to off duty every chance you get. If the truck is stopped you are off duty. Waiting for a load, off duty. Fueling, off duty. This may not be the correct answer at school on a test but it is the real world answer.

You are going to get some short range loads in the middle of the week. A 4 hour load or something like that. Take the run. At the end of your week you might have another long run which you can start out on late using your extra time. At midnight on your 8th day you will pick up however many hours you ran on day 1. Each day after that, same thing. So as long as you protect your on duty time and manage it carefully you can make money.

The drivers who get 3000 plus legally are doing so by never turning down a load and using time management to maximize their available hours.

 

I set my satellite dish up and spend my 34 hours with a Spongebob marathon. Keeps me sane, sorta...

 

Once your 14 hr clock starts you can go on/off duty till you turn blue in the face. Ain't gonna save you no time unless you put a 10 or and split break in between every off duty change.

 

The 14 hour clock runs once you start on duty. But the 70 hour clock only records on duty time. Going off duty saves your 70 hour time. So, I would have to say, you are wrong.

 

So your telling me with your system I can start my day at 6am get to shippers by 7am go off duty till 10am while getting unloaded/loaded and use those 3 hours later all without stopping my 14?

Good luck with that.

 

yeah while your 14 is still running youre saving time on your 70

 

How? Once you go from line 1/2 to lines 3/4 your clock is running. The only thing that stops it is to run it out or to take a break.