Sleep? How much do newbee's get while OTR?

After 14 hours of on duty , of which no more than 11 can be driving you cannot drive until you have had 10 hours off duty or a total 10 consecutive split between sleeper /off duty . You can split the sleeper time between an 8 hour and 2 hour break but the 2 hours will be on the clock . It's simpler just to take the 10 .

 

So I can drive 11 off clock 10 and than drive another 11?

 

Yes , if the freight and scheduling allow it . Many aren't finding that happening now though . Once the 14 hour clock starts only a 10 hour break or 8 hour sleeper will stop it . If you start at 6 a.m. you must stop by 8 p.m. . If you spend 2 hours unloading then 2 more waiting for dispatch to find a load , that's 4 hours . Pretrip and fueling could take at least another 1/2 hour . So 14 hours minus 4 1/2 = 9 1/2 hours available to drive . Then you'll be required to do a post trip before starting to log off duty .

 

Here is how it can look in the news.

And then in this article his POV and commercial driving records are mixed together to make it look really bad.
http://www.wesh.com/news/6474562/detail.html

 

Thanks I figure I was providing an example found in a perfect world.Your example makes it a lot clearer in my head.I have not started school yet but I wanted to learn all I can before hand.

 

I remember hearing about this one.

 

When I was driving otr, if I was really tired, I would park and get in the sleeper, and sleep!
However, if I wanted to take a shower (or really needed to, pu) it was usually during my 8 hour break. And, you can't just run in every truck stop and get right in a shower. Most of the time, you have to wait. Took me 2 hours to get a shower at a T/A one time.
So, if I was under a 'just-in-time' load, it was either get really good sleep and be a little ripe, or get 6 hours and be fresh as a daisy.
But, I usually had a good dispatcher that kept me rolling good, but still allowed me some decent personal time.

 

We have to log 100% legal, and I need 7 hours of sleep a night. I bought melatonin the other week, it works great for putting me to sleep in the afternoon when I get a night load.

 

Good point. I drive at night and take a 3mg melatonin when I get home to make sure I stay on schedule. From everything I have read it is healthy and inexpensive.