Medical Card Changes - US Xpress

You're log department missed it then. They likely don't comb over the logs every day. I know for sure though that when doing a split, the sleeper time has to come first, it extends your 14 hour clock by 8 hours. You get your full 11 hours back after you take 2 hours off, and your 14 hour clock starts after the 8 hour in the sleeper.

You're definitely doing it wrong. The way you think it works would mean that you can just take deduct any time you're off duty during your shift from your 10 hour break. I think it's pretty obvious they don't allow that.

 

Sleeper time doesn't have to come first, you just need to have enough of your previous 11/14 to make it to the point where you start the 8 hr sleeper break. Once that's complete, your 11/14 starts over at the end of the 2 hr break and leapfrogs over to the end of the 8 hrs and you finish your new 11/14.

 

Actually if I am reading that right it is legal. He took 2 off still had 6.5 to drive. Drove 5.5 took 9 off which 8 was in a sleeper so he fulfilled his 8/2 requirement. So when he started he had another 5.5 left which which he could run to 0 take 2 off then have another 5.5.

 

this is also a SCAM to make money........
NOTHING in the dot reg. that require you to ONLY get a 1 year card when your on BP meds
my DR. that I have been seeing for 15 years showed me the reg. and even with what I take I can still get a 2 year card BUT the company (USX) will only let me have a 1 year card

 

He said it was a two hour unload with an hour in the sleeper. I'm assuming the other hour was on duty time.

 

If it wasn't legal, I would have heard about it by now.

Yes, my two hour unload was 30 minutes on line 4, 1 hr on line 2, 30 minutes on line 4, then back to line 3.

Also, I carry one of those neat little pieces of paper, laminated for my protection, that allows me to log unloading or loading times in excess of 30 minutes on either line 1, line 2, or line 4. All our freight is 100% no touch.

 

The new regs are different than the old regs, the Dr. I saw also showed it to me. When I went to my family Dr. a couple days later for something, I asked him, he double checked the book as well.

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/faq/what-effect-driver-certification-based-fmcsa-hypertension-stages

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/faq/may-dr...s-mellitus-treated-oral-medication-be-certifi

 

he said logged 1 of the 2 in sleeper unless he logged the other off duty and no unload time he did not fulfill the requirement.

With 2 30 min periods on duty and only 1 in sleeper or off did not get the 2 hr to be able to run a split.
Just as today I had 2 30 min off and then one at 1.75 off but since they was not consecutive periods with no kind of on duty time I have to do a full 10 had I waited the extra 15 min on the one I would have fulfilled the 2 hr section and would only need an 8 but it was early enough in the day I did not wait as I would have got up ran 1.5 then had to stop for 2hrs again.

Even in the old split sleeper had to have 2hr consecutive and both had to = 10 so a 2-8 3-7 4-6 5-5 but none less than 2hrs
Had he had :30 off 1hr sleeper :30 off he would have been legal.

 

In a split you can do 2 off/sleeper and 8 sleeper or 8 sleeper and 2 off/sleeper.
But there has to be period of at least 8 contentious sleeper.
If you do the 2 first it does not pause the 14

 

I just read up on the FMCSA examples work book I found here http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/2014_HOS_Logbook_Examples_508.pdf

You're right, the order of the 2 breaks does not matter, other than the fact that you need to start your 14 hour clock after the end of the first of the qualifying breaks, not just after the 8 if you took 2 first.

You ARE wrong about doing a "9/1" split. It's 8 (or more but less than 10) hours and 2 (or more but less than 10) hours only.