The things you learn in a rest area

Yes. Split sleeper only affects the 14 hr clock. Not the 11 hr clock.

 

If you took your 2 hour off-duty anywhere in your 11 hours driving yes in fact you only need 8 hours in the sleeper berth to be legal again.

Nobody drives 11 hours straight, and that's not what we're talking about here.

 

Someone sitting behind a desk brainstorming to justify their job. I know! I'll make a sign for dumb truck drivers today. Hmmmm, now where to put it? A truck stop? In an industrial area? Ahh, I know a rest area!

What would they do without me? I just saved 1000 people. (pats self on the back)

 

I interpreted the signs as Illinois simply reminding you that taking your 10hr break in their rest areas is kosher. If you read the posted regs at a California rest area, they still post an 8 hr limit from back in the day. I guess Caltrans figures nobody is really timing you.

FWIW, Texas posts a 24hr parking limit so no 34 hour resets, sowwy!

 

I thought this thread was about a funny sign at a rest area, not another arguement about how 1 person interpretes the HOS rules compared to the next. Jeez people

 

Funny you mention this as just yesterday when getting fuel a 4 wheeler pulling a large trailer asked me if he could drive for 11 hours and restart after 10.

 

False. Your 8 hour has to come first.

An example, you come off a 34hr restart. You drive your 11. You have to take a 10 hour break.

If you drive 8, you can take an 8 hour break, then drive the remaining 3, as long as you don't go over your 14 (with the 8 hour break not included). Then you finish the 3, then take the 2 hour break, then you have 8 more hours to drive, and 9 hours left on your 14.

 

Jesus, why couldn't they have left the old split rules intact, it was so much simpler back then.