question about HOS and reset.

You aren't ruffling my feathers at all. What gets my goat is has beens and never weres who preach the gospel, but haven't read the green book. I already spread the information that you can work more than 70 hours in a week. It is up to the individual driver to decide if it is something they can legally do in their specific situation. I don't know at what point people became convinced that if you logged more than 70 hours that the world came to an end. There are drivers who still think you can only have one 34 hr restart a week. Not that long ago I logged a 16 hour day in the middle of the week and ended up with 78 hours for the week. Took my 34 and two days later a nice officer standing outside a scale asked to see my log. I handed it to him. He took a look at a couple pages, asked me to pull over to the side and walk in so he could "Get a closer look at this". I parked and by the time I stopped at the bathroom and walked up to the customer counter he handed it back to me and said "I thought for sure I was going to be able write you a log book ticket, but you are legal". You just have to know what the rules are.

 

Quick question. Since I am essentially my own boss as a company driver. Can you run nights instead of days?

 

You can run anytime you want as long as the load gets there on time.

 

Actually the poster did not specify work or driving... So to say it wrong is making an assumption on your part.

It would have been easy enough to clarify it rather than to pronounce it wrong.

 

I can't stop laughing. Thanks

 

I got ya. You just said what I meant about restarts and such. I too know the rules. Been at this 23 years. And the rules have changed several times in my time out here. About the time everyone starts to get them figured out, the govt changes them again, if not before then.

 

I agree that it would have been easier to clarify rather than just pronounce it wrong. But as far as going over 70 hours goes, it doesn't matter if you are just on duty or driving. While you can be "on duty, not driving" past your 14 hr clock, you can't do the same for the 70 hr. total. 70 is the limit in 8 days, unless you can get a restart, the particular type of on duty doesn't matter.

 

If you are suggesting a driver may not work on-duty after 70 hours in eight or less days you are mistaken. There is no prohibition to doing so; only to driving.

§ 395.3: Maximum driving time for property-carrying vehicles.

(b) No motor carrier shall permit or require a driver of a property-carrying commercial motor vehicle to drive, nor shall any driver drive a property-carrying commercial motor vehicle, regardless of the number of motor carriers using the driver's services, for any period after—

(1) Having been on duty 60 hours in any period of 7 consecutive days if the employing motor carrier does not operate commercial motor vehicles every day of the week; or

(2) Having been on duty 70 hours in any period of 8 consecutive days if the employing motor carrier operates commercial motor vehicles every day of the week.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/395.3​

 

70 hours only stops you from legally driving... you can work as much as you want, so long as you don't drive past the 70 hour of combined work and driving.