LOG BOOK QUESTION!!!!

Ok there are 4 clocks you need to worry about.

1. 70 hour clock: - 70 hours on/duty and driving (lines 3 and 4) total, in an 8 day period.
2. 14 hour window. It's just that a window. Cannot drive after 14 hours of coming on duty.
3. 11 hour clock - Max drive time in that 14 hour window.
4. 8 hour clock. You cannot drive after being on-duty for 8 hours, without taking a 30 minute break.

There are exemptions to those, but keep to those times and you will never have a violation.

 

The moment you drop to line 3 or 4 your 14 hour clock starts. You drop to line 4 at 6am, at 8pm your 14 hour clock stops. Now if you drive 11 hours in that 14 hours, your clock stops at 11 drive hours or 14 hour whichever comes first.

 

How did you get out of trucking school without knowing this?

 

Summary of Hours of Service Regulations

 

Because the CDL knowledge tests are multiple guess which only check comprehension not competency. It's not hard to fake it to make it

 

Yeah trucking schools are all about money money money. No disrespect to the OP.
But that knowledge should be ingrained in your brain before they hand you a graduation certificate.

 

So none of you EVER heard of the HOS in your driving schools?

 

No need for the schools now days to teach them anything about log books because there will be a computer "ELOGS" telling them everything they need to know. Nothing against the OP but this is the kind of people that the Megas want.

 

Hey! He already told you "no rude comments "!