Max time you spend in sleeper birth?

\If a driver can score a 10 hour break logging 10 hours sleeper or 10 hours off duty or any combination of the two, then why wouldn't a driver be able to score a 34 hour break the same way?

 

Your logic, because it specifically states Off Duty for the 34. 10 hour breaks says, 10 off, 10 SB, or a combination. 34 does not.

Your logic dictates a 34 with anytime spent in a SB would render it invalid.

 

Scottie, we took this as simple, and we all destroyed it. Tommorow we will continue to do it our own way. Most of us do it our way and make out like a bandit come inspection time. There is no reasoning with me Kmac or exray or yourself. We all have the "well I did and do it this way so it's correct" mentality. And the law is written to be a loophole. @TROOPER to TRUCKER Right? Does the law actually benefit the accused in any way?

 

I'm just having fun with this and applying Scotties logic to another scenario.

Log the way you want. I have not had a violation since the 80's, I'll keep doing it my way.

 

I do believe they say off duty, to allow freedoms to us. Motel, hotel, suck down beer, buy a hooker what ever you want on the 34. If it's 34 sleeper, you can't leave the truck because it's assigned to you and who will watch it while gone. What if you 34 under a load. Now your really screwed.

Since it says 34 off, means when you start your 34, you are done with work. You have no option to drive until 34 hrs from now, what have you however you want to word it.

Like I said, the law is not airtight but it will benefit the deep pockets and the judges July 4th picnic more.

 

You do realize there is no HOS law that says I can't get into a CMV and drive around a truck stop parking lot for 24 full hours.

 

I'll pay you your daily rate to do so, then go drive your normal day.

Common sense should be a law.

 

Are you qualifying that SB is not an off duty status??

We are allowed t osplit your 10 hour breaks into two periods, one being a 2 hour SB or Off Duty or any combinations and one being 8 hours in the SB continuous. So if a SB can get you a 10 hour break, stands to reason SB coould also get a driver a 34 hour break.

Do the regs really have to spell out and tell you that SB is technically off duty, the only difference being it is just a specific location?

It doesn't really matter anyway, as you know congress has to pass 13 major spending bills every year. The one they are working on right now has the 34 hour reset missing. So we may lose that luxury if they don't include it int he spending bill. i predict mass pandemonium as drivers freak out trying to run recaps.

 

The ELD will record miles and miles of movement, a record of which is kept by the carrier for 6 months which can be used against you in a fatality crash for example.

 

Off duty means not performing duties related to the job. That off duty time can be spent anywhere. In a hotel, in the lounge watching TV, jogging around the parking lot or in a sleeper berth. Notice I said "a" sleeper berth. I might decide to make a lady trucker's dreams come true and spend my 10 in her berth.