70 hr Rule

Some companies are not even allowing us to do the 8/2 split. I've noticed I'm not allowed to with our co. But I would prefer to stick with the 10 hour rule anyway.

 

She is. You cant be on duty for more than 70 hours in 8 days.

 

You have a link for that?

It is not drive after being on duty for 70 hours last I checked.

 

The driver is the one who's correct.

You can be on-duty as much as you want. BUT, in order to drive you have to abide by the 11hr, 14hr, and 70hr rules.

 

Hold on, will find it but its in the manual you get when you sign on with a company. theres also a D.O.T man who has a thread on here, he will verify it. Scalemaster.

 

Here is the scoop. Notice every one of them says CANNOT DRIVE

https://cms.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-hours-service-regulations

 

The only thing that can cause a violation is driving. you can even interrupt your restart with on duty time because you don't want a restart (someone explain to me why I have drivers that want to do this) or half way through your 10 hour break, but there are no violations until you drive.

 

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2011-title49-vol5/xml/CFR-2011-title49-vol5-part395.xml

This is the Code of Federal Regulations 2011 title 49 which includes part 395. You are right, it does say you cant drive after being on duty for 70 hours but it also says you cannot drive again until you have taken a 34 hour period off duty so if you stay on duty 100 hours, you still have to take 34 off before you can drive again. But realistically, they consider you off duty after 70 so basically you cant be "On Duty" after you have reached 70 hours, unless you do a roofing job for somebody on the side or something?

 

Hardly.

If the company has work for you to do after the 70 hours, not driving, you really believe you can be working and the regulations consider you off duty since you are over the 70 hours?

 

ok so how many hours do you log a week?