Company drivers and 34 H reset?

You have to be opportunistic with taking a 34. Look at your load plan, particularly on the weekend, and see if its feasible. If it ain't, then your trip planning for the week changes

 

Yup

They usually don't plan for the "long term:". If you can theoretically do a run "now" then that's it, they do it. Even if it shafts you for the rest of the week. They don't think that far ahead.

They usually want you to run around like a chicken with your head cut off. You know, run down the hill for one cow when you could walk down and have a few....

Short sighted people who don't have time to think.

 

I don't understand. I thought it was the law. After some are saying 60 some are saying 70 hours you have to take a 34 hour reset by law. Can someone please explain how companies can get around this?

Gamgee

 

34 reset is not a law. You use it to get your full 70 back. If you dont do a 34, you use the recap hour to run.

 

Get a lot of 34s running flats. Most shippers/receivers are closed on the weekend so it's easy to sneak one in.

 

Recap Hour?

All those hours and days away from home. I don't suppose the carriers offer overtime do they?

 

Basically you can work up to the 60 or 70 hour total, then after that if you do not take a 34 reset you will recover whatever hours on duty you had 8 days prior at midnight. Say you worked 10 hours 8 days ago you would get 10 hours to work that day then at midnight you would get back what was then the previous 8th day and so on.

Basically this is how the weekly total worked prior to the 34 hour reset being introduced in 2004. That is why paper log books have a recap page inside the front cover and some have recap boxes on the log page.

 

Thanks. Still don't get it. So what is the 34 Hour reset for then? If not to refresh drivers? I just don't get it.
I really do appreciate everyone's help, assistance and patience with me here.

 

It is exactly to refresh a driver's hours, just some drivers do not work a full 14 hours every day so they do not need to sit still for a day and a half every week to gain hours back.

Really, if you only log 8.5 hours between driving and on-duty total you could work forever without running out of hours because of recap.

All recap hours are is the okd way of caculating available hours, most carriers today want the drivers to use the 34 hour reset because it make their load planning job easier. They don't have to figure out how many hours a driver can run on any day, only keep track of the weekly total and assume a driver will run the full 14 hours each day if the dispatch plan calls for it.

 

He still doesn't get it.