Split reset?

How much drive time did you have left at 7pm? Because if you split your sleeper berth, that's how much time you have left, come 3am. Then you still have to take another 2 hour break, once that time is up. After which your new 14 starts at 3am.

 

Ahhh. Yeah. You need the full 10 hours then. And you're welcome.

 

You would have 26 minutes left after 8 hours in the Sleeper at 0300AM. Do a pretrip and roll, not enough meat on the bone to be worth it.

One of my favorite ways to use it is say 900 miles left on the load to final. Instead of driving 600 or 700 miles today and being real tired and stressed out, maybe no parking at by the time I'm done driving then doing a 10, I would drive 300 miles, do a 2 hour break, then drive 300 miles and do an 8 hour Sleeper break and drive 300 miles to the final customer and do another 2 hour break, what we have is 12 hours rested and relaxed driving and ontime delivery.

 

You can split up the off duty time like that and it still counts as the full 10hr reset? I guess it makes sense but I wouldn't have thought you could do it that way and not affect the 14hr clock, but I guess thats still 14hrs. You can bypass the 30 min break that way as well it seems.

 

Ok, the advice I'm seeing here maybe wrong. If you drive 7.25 hours + .25 pre-trip, you have to take an 8 hour break in the sleeper, or you'll get tagged for a 14 hour rule violation. If you take said 8 hour rest break, you may drive 3.75 hours, remembering that your 14 hour rule reset. Then you'll be required to take a minimum 2 hour break, but you're 14 hour clock continues running. The best advice is unless you are running a team operation DONT SPLIT LOG YOUR REST BREAKS!!

 

There is nothing wrong with splitting the 10 hour rest break, you lose nothing but you could potentially gain 30 minutes a day over a conventional 10 your break 30 minute break driver.

 

When you take the 2, you recover any 11 and 14 prior to the 8 hr split.