14 Hour HOS Question

Something to remember is if you go off duty and pause your 14 and then extend your day beyond your original 14 hour limit you must make up the other part of your break in the sleeper. Even if you’ll be parked for a full 10 to reset your clocks you can’t log off duty for the entire 10 hours. You have to complete your split sleeper to be legal.

 

Both of those examples are legal splits. There's nothing that says the long break must come first.

No. The last 2 duty periods must meet the 11/14 rules. So because you used 6 hours of driving in the prior shift, you'll have 5 hours of driving available, provided there's time available on your 14 clock, which follows the same last 2 periods concept.

 

A 10 hour break requires no sleeper time! He was making the point that if you go home on the long break you have to show sleeper time and not off duty or you will get a violation as soon as you start driving, even if it's after a week off duty.

 

Correct. I’ve logged sleeper berth in my driveway before and gone out and changed it to off duty once my split was complete. It’s dumb, but I can understand why you must have some sleeper berth time to do a split sleeper.

 

It took a few minutes to figure why i had a violation on a Monday morning when they fixed that!

 

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/hours-service-examples-0
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/tags/hos-2020-395-faqs