hours of service and 34hr break i don't get it

For what its worth I picked up in Kittaning, PA on Wednesday for delivery here in Houston on Friday. Loaded and rolling around 1:30pm local time. 1379 total miles as I recall. Delivery window of 8am-4pm in Houston. Checked in at 11am local time on Friday.

 

If you're driving after 8 hours of being on duty you have to take a 30 min break BEFORE you hit the 8 hour mark. Preferably i think anytime after the 3rd hr. If you're not going to be driving after 8 hrs of being on duty you don't have to take a 30 min break

 

The reason they had you taking a 34hr off the same time each weekend is because you can only take it off the same day of the week each week. Your day back on cannot start before 5 am though as far as logging into the truck because you have to have 2 periods off during the 34hr reset between 1-5am. You cannot count a 34hr reset say if you take Wed and Thurs off for some reason, you would still have to take the 34hr off on Friday because the Wed-Thurs off would not count as a 34hr reset.

 

Your company should explain it to you anyway before they send you out. Make sure to ask them and make sure you understand it before heading out

 

MissJHawk,

DOT wants you to take a 30 minute break so you don't have any single 8 hour period without one on your log. If thought out, a break needs to fall somewhere between after 5 1/4 hours of coming on duty and 7 3/4 hours. They are trying to get us old gummers who can sit in the saddle for long stretches at a time to take a break. It was not uncommon for me to have 9 or more hours behind the wheel in one sitting, but most folks can not do that head calls aside.

My understanding is that it needs to go on line 1; the other thing to watch out for is going more miles then can be done at the 65 mph federal commercial truck speed limit. My truck will run fast enough, so I always have to watch the 65 mph law when running long stretches on the open highway. My take is that it makes it easier for DOT to monitor the federal speed limit on the 70 and 75 mph highways.

For what it is worth,
CarolinaChuck

 

What?
How come I've never heard of this?

 

Speed limit is 75 in New Mexico and Arizona and other western states I don't know all the speed limits

 

I know..
Lots of States are higher than 65 and most states don't have split speed limits..
Not sure where that's from?

Lunch Counter?