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Message:: [QUOTE="Terlingua, post: 12308788, member: 324541"]I haven't personally run into that issue, but it's something that would affect OTR drivers more than me.  I reset at home every week and am never in danger of running out of hours on my 70.  As far as being on-duty during load/unload, if I'm in the sleeper, I'll stay off-duty.  A couple of our locations require us to sit at the dock while unloading, and I'll be on-duty for those.  They are, however, using the hourly pay as a replacement for other accessory pay like detention or breakdown.  So, it really is up to the driver to balance on-duty time with conserving your 70 to be able to drive more.  For example, I was in a hotel for a couple days last week while my truck was down at the Freightliner dealer.  My DBL told me I could go on-duty for 14 hours each day to collect "breakdown" pay.  [USER=43957]@gentleroger[/USER] could probably give you a better perspective on the hourly pay from the OTR side of things.[/QUOTE]