2 weeks running straight....hos?????

maybe he showed more time on duty not driving than he needed to like an hour to fuel or vsi;s etc but very possible to roll your hours and run non stop as long as you average 8.75 hrs a day

 

Sounds like you've identified the answer ... if "safety" "shaves off" 1,2, 3, or 4 hours here and there, anything is possible. But regardless, 34 hour restarts are NOT MANDATORY or required or necessary IF the daily on duty hours are reduced below the maximum allowed ... consistently and/or regularly.

 

You can run 8.75 hours a day from now on because the first day falls off. Its makes day # 2 change to day #1 of the next 8 day period. It is complicated, but legal.

 

What company does he work for? Shaving off 4hrs that sounds illegal to me. Unless he is using on duty not driving time for unloads or something like that. I would get away from this company. Seems like great miles, but if he gets in an accident. Even though the company shaved off those hours. He will still get in trouble.

Now if you aren't running hard it is possible to not ever have to take a 34 restart. Once your 8days come around you will be losing the hours that you worked from the previous week. I myself only have 7hrs and 32 min left on my 70. but i'll gain 4hrs at midnight. Then the next day I have 7hrs coming off and the next almost 12. I hate running on recap hours because you have to wait till midnight to run again. But sounds like the safety department your husband works for. Is logging like I use to log. Hope he doesn't get caught.

 

I do it all the time. I took a 34 in Front Royal, VA, picked up in Strasburg, VA, 7 stops: Las Vegas, NV; Oxnard, CA; Walnut, CA; Poway, CA; Sylmar, CA and two stops in Los Angeles. I then picked up in Tulare, CA and took that to Appleton, WI, then picked up in Neenah, WI and dropped in Eagan, MN. That's 5640 loaded miles. You keep on getting hours off the back 8 days so you can continue running.

 

I recently had a friend of mine who had been working for Swift and USXpress tell me how he thought it was MANDATORY to take a 34hr restart every week.

He was running elogs and apparently, when his hours were close, they automatically had him take a 34, he assumed it was part of driving

now he is on a different company, running paper logs and is completely lost

yet another friend is on elogs and drives coast to coast and max's out at 4000mi per week (all drop and hooks)

 

They're more than likely editing unnecessary on duty time.

I always show 15 mins at customers for loading/ unloading then go into sleeper. Staying on duty wastes 70 he clock. Say your held up somewhere for 8 or 10 hours. You could be logging a break thus resetting your hours but instead you stay on duty the whole time then take a break. Completely unnecessary

 

There should be a day in there where he only can run a few hours in the day and or having to take a whole day off and it just seems magically his safety department is cutting hours off some how when he really needs them. Seems shady and at best that the DOT put the company on Elog because of their shady logging practices in the first place.

Joseph how many weeks did it take you to do all those loads?