70 hour 8 day rule

I am currently working for an environmental drilling company and we have been having a discussion about our re-start rules. I am trying to figure out if we still have the hours fall off after 8 days or if we have only the option of doing a re-start to get our driving hours back. Thanks in advance

Andy

 

We usually do 10 day shifts and then have to drive back to our home station for our days off. Sometimes our transportation is a Ford F-550 and that is what we use for going to and from the hotels also. I was trying to find something on the FMCSA site to prove the point that we don't always have to take a day off before driving if we have any hours. Thanks for your help! We also run our one ton trucks and when we use those with no trailer we log as on duty not driving. The darn FMCSA site is so hard to understand and get definitive answers from.

 

We usually do 12-14 hours a day so that is true. We do burn our hours pretty quickly. From what I have seen on the FMCSA site and what we have been told by our company safety as water well drillers we only have to do a 24 hour restart. Which is nice.