Can I use a split break to avoid rush hour?

That wont help, sorry.After the 8th hour in the sleeper birth you would only get back what you originally had left on your 11.

 

With only a half hour left, a split does you no good.

 

It is a fairly confusing law..

This is how it works (or safety told us it works) you can split your break into 2 breaks.. one must be 8 hours IN THE SLEEPER BERTH... The way they explained it to us was the 2nd was either sleeper or off duty.. and it had to be 2 hours.. and you don't pick up the full 11 hours of drive time.. You only pick up the hours before your first break.. and your 14 hour clock starts at the end of your first break if you are taking the 8 hour break before the 2 hour break..

So if you drove 8 hours and took an 8 hour break first you will pick up 8 hours after you finish your next 2 hour break........but this is what confuses me.. here....I am not sure if you still have the previous 3 hours from the 11 hours the day before.... I would assume you would but that might get you a ticket as the law is kind of written in a circular argument.

The short answer is if you don't understand it don't use it.. get with your safety man or go ask your local CMV officer when you are at home...

 

Yes... you could make this work. You just have to start the cycle with a 2 hour break.

For example...

Say you take a 2 hour break between midnight and 2:00 AM. Once you take 8 in the sleeper at 5:00 AM, your clock will recalculate from 2:00 AM and the 8 doesn't count against your 14.

So... in this case you have 11 hours of driving time and 14 hours of on duty time starting at 2:00 AM.

If we assume that you drove without a break between 2:00 Am and 5:00 AM then you've used up 3 hours of driving time and 3 hours of on duty time.

When you come off your 8, you'll have 8 hours of driving time and 11 hours of on duty time to work with.

 

There is a docked document on split breaking on this site! It has a method to calculate split breaking.
To the original poster! If you drove 10.5 hr, take an 8 hr sleeper break, you could only drive 30 minutes and then would have to take a 2 hr break. After the 2 hr break you would have 10.5 hrs available to drive. Basically when you split break you the 8 & 2 work as a 10 hr break.
Key thing to remember is it takes 10 hrs to clear 1 minute of "work (driving & on-duty).
Study the dot log book examples on their website regarding sleeper berth provision!