Company Drivers with elogs, how long do yall go without takin a 34

It also depends on freight. If you can not get a load due to your location, you may end up being forced to do a reset. That happened to me the other week.

 

Varies from week to week for me. Right now, I'm on my second Sunday in a row doing a 34....first time I've "backed-to-backed" on consecutive weekends since I came back to driving almost four years ago. I've also gone the three or four weeks with no restart.

I could have worked 5 hours today, then about 8.5 the next three followed by an 11. But I've got some research to do for my son, so I could use the off day. It also gives me full hours to run before I go home next weekend.

I probably wouldn't have taken the day off, however, if I had more than 7 or 7.5 hours to work. Just so happened I really needed to get some personal things done today.

 

Yes, as long long as it is 34 hours off.

 

If you have to think about a restart you are working to hard.

 

Some guys work hard to make money, they already have friends.

 

I'll drive hard as I can- until the hours I'll pick up on the 8th and 9th day are unusable. Restart and do it again. Sometimes that takes 2 weeks, sometimes it takes 6 months.

That's making the most effective use of Government mandated LAZINESS. It's only personal preference, but I hope to never do a 34 restart with a loaded trailer, customers deserve a higher level of integrity than that.

And for you fans of limiting working hours and forced laziness, my job IS my time off. In other words, trying to play Simon Says games and stupid HOS compliance follies, the BS wears me down- so I drive to relax and relieve the stress. Something Uncle Slam and the DOT don't even comprehend. It's called Work Ethic, and is now a violation of law.

If I wanted a useless job that stole value from society and earned a fat paycheck with bennies, I would have stayed a Federal Employee. I don't demand that Government workers keep up with me, and resent Government slowing me down to their low standards.

So the only reason to use a 34 hour restart is because of the 70 hour limit. If they would remove that silly restriction, I wouldn't need a restart.