question about HOS and reset.

When i was otr i had a system going where i was legally driving for a month sometimes without ever taking a reset. You can drive forever and never have to take a reset. I think the magic number is 8.75 hours a day. Now if you WANT to take a reset every week just make sure you drive 10-11 hours every day.

 

They can't force you to do anything. If you have hours available and they can make use of you I imagine they would expect you to do your job though.

 

The HOS is federal. The current HOS is designed so that Slackers would be able to keep a job and it helps protects Stupid from himself. We all have a job to do. A slacker doesn't want to work and Stupid will do his usual thing and go out and die in a crash.

To Opie....
Get your calendar out. Oct 9, you have 9.5 on duty. Oct 10, 10.75. Oct 11, 11. Oct 12, 6.75. Oct 14, 10.5. Oct 15, 11.75. How many hours would you have for today? Dispatch calls you wanting you to bounce 200 miles tomorrow and pick up a load that's going 700 miles to deliver Monday, FCFS. Can you do it? Approximately how many hours would you have available Monday? There's no wrong answer, but there would be some drivers who would squeeze in a 34.

 

Wrong. First you can work over 70, please know the rules before you comment. Second, you do not HAVE to do a reset. It really is shocking how much misinformation is spread by people.

 

They can tell you to keep moving, or pack your bags and go home.

 

This was answered in a thread you started a few weeks ago.
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...s/can-someone-explain-hos-reset-to-me.296482/

Again, they can't force you to do anything but likely expect you to work if you have hours available and they have work for you.

If you don't reset you aren't averaging more than 8.75 hours of work each day.

8.75 may sound like a lot if you're used to a 9-5 job. It may sound like more than enough if you're driving locally and getting home every night. If you're running OTR that isn't much at all. Unless you require way more sleep than most people that leaves a whole lot of time in the day to be eating, showering, buying groceries, doing laundry etc.

Some guys like to take it easy, average 8.75 or less a day and never reset. Some like to run hard, do a reset and run hard again. Depending on the company you may not have much choice on which you do.

Averaging 8.75 and wanting to do a reset each week won't fly with too many companies though.

 

Not trying to ruffle your feathers or anything, but if you see some misinformation being spread, maybe you should try to spread some information. I'd be curious to know, without squeezing a restart in somewhere, how you can work more than 70 hrs in 8 days. If I'm missing something, I'd sure like to know.

 

You can't drive after 70 on duty but there's no limit to how much line 4 you do.

The 14 only applies to driving also. Nothing to stop someone from getting back to their terminal, bumping the dock and then going way past the 14 unloading their trailer or getting it ready for the next day or anything else that isn't driving.

 

Sorry, may not DRIVE after 70 in 8 days.

60/70-Hour Limit
May not drive after 60/70 hours on duty in 7/8 consecutive days. A driver may restart a 7/8 consecutive day period after taking 34 or more consecutive hours off duty. - See more at: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulation...ours-service-regulations#sthash.TcFbnlq6.dpuf