I feel like giving up on drivers :(

No you didn't offend me, I was being silly. I work # Celadon

 

Look at the sticky threads in the regulations forumn (here) and find the powerpoint on the 11 & 14 hour rule. I feel that explains it pretty well. All you do is click and keep clicking to get the lines to keep going. Ask me questions or anyone here. ASking questions here may help someone else learn what they are doing wrong or help them learn just as well so it's always great to help out when needed so ASK

 

Great advice! However all you need to do in that 14 hour period is add up lines 3 as you go and don't drive over 11 hours, and make sure you stop by that 14 hour mark that Chrome explained).

Also what he means by on time is once you complete a 10 hour consecutive break (or longer) once you enter lines 3 or 4 (on-duty not driving or driving) your 14 hour clock has started, count over 14 hours from the time you ENTERED lines 3 or 4 and make that mark,that's when the 14 hour is up.


Regardless whichever comes first your 11 or 14 hour you must stop driving.

Also there is no LEGAL reason what so ever to drive passed your 14 or 70 hour limit. Also many drivers believe the DOT allows you to drive 2 hours extra on your 11 to find a "safe place to park" that is not true unless you had some unforseen issue happen during your trip that could of been done without that unforseen issue. Usually Accidents is the best one. Not going into details unless asked.

 

But your total hours for the day being 10 can still put you in log violation. Just want to make sure that's clear.

Understand once your day starts (being lines 3 or 4 which is on-duty not driving or driving) you only have 11 hours to drive, if you don't get that 11 done within your 14 hour period you are SOL or in a nice way you are done regardless at the end of the 14 hour period.

I stress that because I had a driver the other day that just refused to understand if my line 3 & 4 does not total more than 14 hours in that day I can not be in violation. Also his line 3 only totaled 7 hours but he didn't see the point he didn't take a full 10 hour break or the fact he drove passed his 14 hour He did come back to appoligize and I "think" he understands now.

SO if I e-mail that powerpoint to my son's computer (equipped with Vista) and post it for vista users would that work or do I need to totally re-do it?

 

Ok thanks