Log question from a 39 yr vet

You should be able to use any of the unused 11/14 from before you took your break, but you cannot exceed your 11/14/70.

Split break is basically:

• 8 hours pauses your 14
• 2 hours does not pause your 14
• the two break periods (8 and 2) can be taken in any order
• the two work periods on either side of either break, added together, cannot exceed your 11/14/70

 

The 8 hrs must be in sleeper berth. The 2 hrs can be off duty or sleeper.

Example:
08:00, drive 7 hrs
15:00, take 8-hr sleeper break (pauses 14)
23:00, drive 4 hrs (11-hr drive rule)
03:00, take 2-hr break
05:00, can drive 7 hrs (new 14-hr clock starting from 23:00)

The example above has been simplified. It’s missing two pre-trips and one post-trip inspection. You want a pre-trip at 08:00 and 23:00, and also a post-trip at 03:00 or 05:00.

Your ELD will do this automatically. Keep an eye on your summary tab to verify once the 8-hr sleeper or the 2-hr break have gone through. The 2-hr break is optional. Some people just use the 8-hr split once, and then continue their usual schedule of taking a 10-hr break.

 

Yeah, 8 hours SB will only pause your clock. You will have the same time left after the 8 SB as when you started. You kinda need to plan a head to use them.

Like if you get held up someplace for 4 hours or so, and aren't working, it would be a good time to start a split. You can spend a bit of in SB to work on the 8, sit for a few more hours to "pause" the clock so you have the same hours left as you did when you finished with your "on-duty" work.

Say you had 4 hours drive time left. You could drive the 4 hours then take two hours off-duty to complete the "10 hour". You would get your hours back minus the four hours you drove between the split. So you would get 7 hours drive time back after the split.

You could get hours back after an 8 SB if you had two hours off-duty or SB beforehand... You can do an 8/2 or 2/8. But only 8 SB will "pause" your clock.

 

you only get back what you used before midnight. so if you used 7 hours. then you get back 7 hours after doing a sleeper split after midnight

 

I don’t think that sounds right. It seems like you’re mistaking the 8-hr split with the HOS recap.

 

i dont know i mite be confused. im on 750mg robaxnin

 

its a side effect