8th day of the week

you don't have too go home at all. you can keep running and making money. the longest i ran for was 3 months straight without a day off.

 

yeah, i wouldn't run 3 months straight. i'd take the time off, either at home, or at least at a full service truck stop. you can burn out real quick when all you do is run,run,run.

take your time off. don't ever make the job your life.

 

oh it did. it burnt me slap out. i kinda became numb to reality.

 

IF your only out for a couple of weeks at a time to stay moving is the goal, so hubby seldom has a restart, if he does end up with one its at a big truck stop for laundry, maybe a movie in the lounge, clean out the truck....the goal is to keep enough hours to keep moving and more often than not it works out that way.

IF your out longer than 2 weeks you really do need to just stop and get a decent break from the truck/traffic/stress/weather etc.

 

I dont take day off after 8th(for restart).I work for moving company and spend a lot of hours loading and unloading.If I have to do restart it's going to be a big job(sometimes 2 days at the same location).

 

that dictates your time off. It's your hours. Once you hit 70 hours..you stop until you gain more hours. As far as earned time off for a company driver, most big companies will allow about a day off for every week your out. But you most likely have to stay out for 2-3 weeks at a time.

Or, when you hit 70 hours or close to it... you can take 34 hours off and restart your 70. When you come back to work... you would log the previous 7 days with zero hours worked for each day. That'll give you another 70 hours.

 

you are able to restart your 70 hours. So after 34 straight hours of being off duty, all of the hours that you worked the previous 7 days are erased and you now have a fresh 70 hours to work. In your logbook, in the recap section.... you'll see it says 'hours worked for the previous seven days....... you'll either enter zeros in that section or just leave it blank.. either way. Now you'll have 70 hours available to work all over again.