recap hours start

You have to have "Today" plus 7 days previous accounted for. That makes 8 days. At midnight (12am) of your 8th day, you get back whatever you logged on day 1 of your previous 7 because those hours fall off and become useable "today".

Recap is a good tool. Good idea to use it. Not required. Helps show you are being mindful of the rules when your book gets looked at.

The 34 hour restart does reset your 70 hours to zero. You can only do this once every 168 hours (7 days).

 

I run by paper the same as elogs that I had with another company. Might as well get used to the mandatory day.

 

I don't really mind paper logs or e-logs. I have said in other threads, I don't like seeing "must have log book experience" in job ads. If you log it how you do it, you don't need experience. It's self explanatory.

I don't like e-logs when it comes to that really tight load that your dispatcher tells you "You have the hours, I just checked the computer" but you know your route, traffic, etc and you know you can't make it on time, under hours, etc.

 

Was sitting in Joplin Saturday night. A nobe was all beside himself, had 10 hours before a reset and his dispicker was telling him to run 44 to St Louis and get delivered.
Frinkin lot was full from all the others staying put, and he leaves.

 

"Must have log book experience" is the bosses way of saying "must know how to cheat the book and make it look legal" lol

 

Are you sure about that? I've done multiple resets in a single week before. Very few scenarios when it would be recommended, but...

 

The once every 7 days has been rolled back along with the 2 consecutive periods of 1am-5am. There currently are no restrictions beyond 34 hours consecutive off-duty.

 

You so a 34 anytime and as many times as you want.Ad the rules are now. Hopefully they don't go back to the 168 hour crap. Wish we could get rid of the 14 hour rule, that would be nice

 

The problem is the old way, 10/8/15, did not add up to 24 hours. After 3 days, instead of sleeping at night, I was sleeping in the day!

My idea is 14 hours on, 10 off. For the 10, there must be 1 period of 8 hours, and your choice the other 2. No single block of on duty of more than 7 hours. Day is still 24 hours, but we get the flexibility to stop and rest when needed.

 

See that's where I would be slapping some sense into him