34 hour resets

It's not that hard to kill your 70 hour clock in 5 days. Mainstream OTR carriers like to run you hard.

If you kill your 70's within 5 days, you aren't getting anything back on the recap for 3 more days (this is assuming you started the 8 day period with a fresh 70 hour clock).

 

If you run 14 hrs for 5 straight days that is 70 hours thus you would not gain hrs back for at least 2 days so a 34 hr reset gets your hours back to 0 at minimum fourteen hours earlier then you would gain any back otherwise.

 

I've known some drivers who we're not "wise enough" to set an extra 2 or 6 hours and get a 70 Hr reset. ALWAYS get a reset when the opportunity presents itself because you never know how busy your next week might be ... running against/with "gained hours" sucks when you need to go and have the loads/freight available.

But I realize some drivers are "lazy" and like to use the system to force them to run 6 or 8 hours a day ... a dispatcher's nightmare driver in a world where some loads are longer than 500 miles

 

Swift. Only lease and owners have a line 5 on their elogs. Company does not.

 

I said that?

Take a look at my sig....I took that 3 months ago.

 

Loaded...

 

Another case of companies making up their own FMCSR's.

 

Those are called "Company Policys", All companies have them.