70 hour rule - help settle an argument

RickG is correct in his understanding of this rule, companies can work you as long as they want as long as they do not get behind the wheel until they have had a 34 hour restart. You can work past the 70 hour rule on any other line you chose as long as it is not line 3. I don't understand were someone came up with the understanding of 10 hours off and your clear to drive the amount of time that you were not on duty.

 

I don't know that anyone is saying you only have to take a 10 hour break, you still have to comply with the 70/8 rule. At a minimum you will have to take 10 hours off duty / sleeper berth. Depending on how many hours you have worked in the last eight days, you may very well have to take a 34 hour reset. If you worked all 70 hours in three days the fastest way to get your hours back is a 34 hours reset. On the other hand if you worked your 71st hour on your eighth day, you could take your 10 hours and wait until after midnight and you would get the hours back that you worked the first day. Minus one hour of course.

 

That is why I said 8th day gain or 34 restart.

 

Ok I looked it up. You are right, you can work till you are blue in the face after 70 hrs. You just can drive till you get back under the 70. My bad

 

you guys are hung up on the 34 hour reset thing. You don't have to use it. It is there if you want but you can take what ever you have available the next day and so forth and so forth just like we used to do in the old days.

 

Still do! The key is not letting yourself run out of hours in the first place - be smart about how you do things. That 34-hour restart is a last resort.

 

It would depend if he needs a 10 hour break or not. The 10 hour break has nothing to do with gaining hours on your 70 hour.

At midnight you gain the hours you worked 9 days ago. Now if you are over your 70 hour today (via line 4 which is totally legal) the # of hours you are over will come out of the hours you are gaining at midnight.

If you do your recap (which you should be doing it, per me not dot) it should tell you how many hours you have available.

But to many drivers want to relate the 11/14 into the 70. The only thing you need to do is say. I have 10 hours available and I can use them 10 hours available from Midnight to midnight. Now you must follow the 11/14 hour rule and not work more than your hours available.

 

Yeap you are correct

 

My thought on "be smart" is if you have freight take it and run legally/safely as much as possible deliver pick up the next load (hope there is one) and get going. If you say I am only going to work 8 hours a day so I don't run out of hours well you might lose a load and no worries about getting close to the 70.

Work work work if you run out take a 34 or see if you gain hours and keep rolling. Your bound to get more freight this way.

 

so many people think the 34 hour reset is mandatory after working 70, and they are sadly wrong. The 34 hour reset is optional, and you have to be relieved of all duties to the truck and the load. So one can NOT take a 34 hour reset while under a load, just have to do it old school where you pick up hours at midnight for the next day.

The 11/14 and 70 hour rules only relate to when you can drive, not how much you can work. But work counts against the 14 and 70, and reduces ones drive time.