can someone explain HOS reset to me?

Nothing stopping a driver from resetting with a 34 if they break through 70 hours! A driver can be ON DUTY-NOT DRIVING for any amount of time. The only rule regarding that issue is the driver may not DRIVE until 10 hours OFF DUTY/SLEEPER has been met, and that there are hours available from the 70 total in 8 days.

 

I remember seeing the 'no 34 if over 70' rule somewhere years ago, maybe it was fazed out in one of the revisions over the years.

 

Morpheus, you'll figure it out. The HOS rules can be a pain for a while. Are you on Elogs? If you ever learned to do paper it makes a lot more sense with those hours dropping off in the 8th day and being available for you to drive. Some companies are more flexible than others concerning those rules.

A comment I don't understand and think is the path to madness: "If you go over your 70, you can't take a 34 hour reset?" What happens if you go over, your life ends? Some celestial entity pulls your CDL? If you go over your 70, you will NEED a 34hr reset. Unless it's been 8 days, and you can start picking up the hours that drop off, like Joker and others said, you can start running on your recap.

I do that, a lot. Lately, though, I've been thinking about it more because if you run less than 11hrs drivetime available per day, you wind up sitting and waiting for your 10hr clock, a lot more waiting. No pay for waiting. So I'm trying the reset and run a full clock, then compare that to my recap income. Best.

 

Oh please go into further depth with this statement. I'm dying to know your reasoning for such a statement.

 

Pre-trips are not required, flagged only. Post trips are logged.

 

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/395.3

 

No worries. By the time you get your CDL FMCSA will have changed all the rules again on HOS making this thread irrelevant.