Changing driver HOS pattern.

The original assumption was maxing out your HOS. You can burn through 70 driving hours in 5 days if you have the right loads.

 

That is true "double yellow".. I was just going by what you stated but, you are right. I have burnt through 70 in 5 and in that case your better off taking a reset, over recap. In any operation I have ever been in, it is hard to just run on recap, especially a van operation.

 

most drivers can't run on recap. it just does't work out for us they need to get people who understand the trucking industry to make the rules not someone who has no knowledge of it

 

Double yellow, I thought I understood hos, but apparently not. I thought the max daily driving was 11 hrs. 5 * 11= 55. What am I not getting?

 

Don't forget about the "on-duty" time.... PTI, Fuel, shipper/receiver times and what not..

 

Thinking about it, it would be hard to burn up 15 hrs of "on-duty" time in 5 days in any operation I can think of and still burn up the 11 hrs as well. I did it while pulling a flat sometimes.. Not often but it can be done. I would say 6 days is more accurate.

 

On duty would make sense 5*14=70. He said driving time which confused me.

 

I never driver under anyone else's schedule. I don't have set delivery times, but I do try to deliver as early as possible in order to get reloaded the same day.

I drive until my body says I am tired. I try to get at least 8 hrs of solid sleep in each day. Not always possible. But that is my goal. I can sleep any time. Day or night. So my sleeping pattern is erratic at best. I run both days and nights during a 7 day week. I do paper logs so this works out well for me because I can run at my own pace. I would have a very difficult time trying to run on e-logs.

I've tried to adhere to HOS rules. I am more tired when I drive legally then when doing it my way.

Hurst

 

PFFFTT!
Does any driver really put themselves on duty while sitting in a dock!?
Good Lord in Heaven, I'd be out of hours after two deliveries in a week >.<

 

Good Lord in Heaven, if they don't they will get busted.. Let me elaborate a little... I am not saying every second you are at the shippers, just the amount of time it takes, roughly, to get out, open doors, undue securement, take paperwork to doc/office etc. I usually log 15/30 depending on what I am doing or where I am. If you don't log any time, than try to explain that to a DOT officer when he sees where you changed trailers or dropped or loaded... This argeument has been talked about before.