HOS Do I Gain Time Back Even If I'm Currently Driving/On-Duty

Yes. If you shut down at 12:00 with 60 minutes left on your 70. You can start clock and pull out at 23:00 and start driving and never miss a beat. (All times being Log time zone)

 

Time zone of your company HQ, address in your ELD. (Logs) Not local time zone. When I ran central zone out of Arkansas into California my midnight is two hours ahead of their local midnight.

There should be a paper RECAP written down last 8 days with your hours worked onduty and driving each of those days. You will instantly know what hours you get back midnight to begin a new work day hours whatever the recap says you have against your total 70 hours in last 8 days.

Sometimes you run at night, sometimes by day or parts of both. Don't get hung up on Midnight. Dear Uncle Sam has to write something to begin a new workday and 0001 hours is it to use Military Time. Or one minute past midnight as written into the Law for a new workday even though you may be proceeding through your current 11 hours driving or 14 hours onduty through midnight. The problem is that 70 hour rule. If you are against it and have no time, you literally are going to SIT either 34 hour reset under your current HOS rules and reset OR you are going to sit until your last 8 days recap hours tell you have time back to begin work the following day. Which might not be a full workday. So,....

I'll shut up now. I cannot be any plainer than that.

 

If you have 5 hours today, and you gain 9 at midnight.

You can start at 7p and regain the 9 and could drive the full 11. Obviously with a 30 min break in there.

Your ELD will likely yell at you and tell you You are nearly out of hours.. But when the clock strikes midnight you will magically get the rest of those hours.

I do this quite a bit when I'm short hours.

 

No.
It is the time zone of your assigned terminal.

 

Incorrect. Your logs should be done in the time zone of the company HQ. My assigned terminal is in Florida, but the company HQ is in Nebraska. My logs must reflect Central Time.

 

Then it changed. Ever since I've been out here, you operated on whatever your "home terminal" is.

 

and somehow they convince drivers that all this idiotic nonsense has anything to do with driver fatigue lol

 

Wrong, it is the driver's home terminal, not the company HQ - 395.8 (f) 8) Time base to be used. (i) The driver's duty status record shall be prepared, maintained, and submitted using the time standard in effect at the driver's home terminal, for a 24-hour period beginning with the time specified by the motor carrier for that driver's home terminal.

Well it does as a secondary related issue, abuse is the primary issue. We want HOS there, a lot of drivers think they are special and should be getting special consideration to drive as long as they want and think they are safe doing so.

 

Let me guess. You heard this from a fellow student over lunch one day in school and naturally accepted this as Gospel. Wonder what other bad info stuck.