how many hours in 14 day period?

It's 120 hrs in 14 days, but you must show 24 consecutive hours off duty before the end of the 14th day. Personally, I would stay on cycle 1, 70 hrs in 7 days. You still have to show 24 off before the end of day 14, but you can technically run 140 hrs in 14 days that way. You also have to take 24 off when switching between the 70 and 120 rules, when you used to be able to switch at will. 36 hours to reset your 70, 72 to reset your 120.

 

[QUOTE]You also have to take 24 off when switching between the 70 and 120 rules, when you used to be able to switch at will. 36 hours to reset your 70, 72 to reset your 120. [/QUOTE]

Just wondering...does it also work the other way around?
What i mean by that... if you want to switch from 120 rule back to the 70 rule, is it also 24 hours to make the change?

 

Also i have an additional question...can you switch cycles before you exhaust them?....Lets say that youre three quarters way down in a 120 cycle and when you do the math you know, that you will be out of hours...so can you abandon your cycle without maxing it out first in favour of the other cycle?
I never had to switch between cycles before, so my knowledge in that area is seriously lacking...

 

Not sure where the 24 hours came from but to switch cycles you need to do a reset. To move away from the 70/7 that means 36 hours off and to move away from the 120/14 that means 72 hours off.

 

Tinytim....i think youre right...im not sure where i got the 24 hours from...i think i misunderstood some context in the previous posts..

 

OK I'm confused now
http://adrivers.com/hoursOfService.php

 

Wow, this thread is kinda old now, but I checked, and to switch cycles, you now have to reset. If you were on the 70 hr, that's 36 off. If you were on the 120, that's 120 off. You used to be able to start out on the 70 hr, then switch to the 120 if you ran out, without a break, but you couldn't switch back.

There is really no good reason to run the 120 hr cycle in Canada. Use 70 hr 8 day in the US, and 70 hr 7 day in Canada. Make sure you track them separately or you could be in for a surprise when you cross back into the US. I know some guys that run the US rules regardless of where they are just to simplify things, but if you do that, you can really only work 8.75 hrs/day on the average.

 

red should be 72 hours.

 

Oops. yeah you're right. My bad.

 

You don't pay any attention to the other time zones on your log book. Only log in your home time zone.