Can you EXTEND driving time by going off duty?

Again you're responding without having a clue what you are talking about . The people in my safety department are competent and have full understanding of DOT regulations . Companies can have rules that go beyond what FMCSA states . If a company decides their drivers can't split log , the drivers cvan't split log . FMCSA only requires showing city and state where duty status changes take place . Some carriers require drivers to write the activity such as fuel stop , loading , etc . The company makes the rules and there is no point questioning them .
You can ignore company rules if you want and care less as long as you're legal . I doubt you get much benefit from that .

 

This is a poor explanation because it totally disregards on duty time . If more than 3 hours were used on duty before the break , or will be needed after the break , for pretrip , fueling , etc . He will not have a full 11 hours driving time available in the 14 .

 

This is my point maybe you should READ THE POST. Here is what I said, If you do the 8 then 2 after the 2 hour break your 14 hour clock is reset but you only have drive time of 11 hours minus however long you drive time was between the 8 and 2 hour breaks. Example if you took 8 hours in the sleeper drove 1 hour to customer took another 2 hour in sleeper or off duty then came back on duty to drive you would only have 10 hours drivetime left. YOU decided to add more to the scenario than I posted.


I was giving ONE example not every possible ########## example out there. I'm done with this posts. Again this is not about you or your company it was about HELPING someone else understand split logging better but your to much much of a ####### ######## to figure that out.It has to be about you.

 

I added more to the scenario because drivers do more than drive . They do pretrips , posttrips , load , unload , fuel , and maybe more . If the total of all that on duty time comes to more than 3 hours you DO NOT have 11 hours driving time left in 14 hours . I'm sure MOST people can comprehend that .

 

Can i make it from Nashville TN to Portland TN then drive to Fayetteville NC in my 14 hours?

 

Way to dig up a 9 year old thread to ask something easily figured out on your GPS.

Nobody can answer that question but you anyway. We don't know how fast your truck will run. Have no idea how you drive. And no idea what may slow you down. Such as getting inspected because you're possibly driving for a crap company.

If driving from center of one town to the next, that route is just over 600 miles. Throw in a bunch of city driving and if you're in a 65 mph truck, you won't make it.

 

There is something called the split sleeper birth provision but many companies don't allow it. Basically, you can recapture some of your time by being in sleeper.

 

He asked that question nine years ago. I hope he figured it out by now.