sleeper berth vs. non sleep: Off-Duty in a Daycab?

It is very easy to be OFF-DUTY when operating a day cab... when you are not DRIVING, or ON-DUTY and you are out of the cab and released from responsibility, you are OFF-DUTY.

 

People are just responding to help guys! The little green book is what I recommend

 

Umm... no.

Perhaps you meant to say "If you Pretrip/Post trip..." rather than "Unless..."

Using the SLEEPER BERTH provision (which the OP asked about), in effect, "extends" the 14-hour clock by the length of time spent in the sleeper berth. There are threads that explain the provision quite well and I would suggest reading those rather than getting into a full explanation here.

 

I believe the answer was for a daycab with TWO (2) drivers (driver and trainee). Kinda difficult to show off-duty/sleeper for 1 driver while the other drove an additional 500 miles when you got no bunk. How'd the od/sb guy get back in the cab if he's supposedly 500 miles behind you sleeping?

Makes me laugh every time I hear you guys bragging about knowing more about the rules than the scale. What will get your butt is not the scalehouse but the audit folks. They do check stuff like fuel reciepts, toll reciepts, etc, etc which are all time stamped. These people see thousands of these things and know all the dodges and shortcut you can dream up and then some. They get paid to hang both the company and you out to dry.

 

I will bet $500 right here and now you cannot produce that regulation . Put up or shut up .

 

The posted statement 'if you are running a day cab you ARE NOT ALLOWED to be "off duty" or "sleeper berth"' is false. The same poster went on further to say that running team in a day cab is pointless. Two seperate issues.

If that is directed at me feel free to point out any false or misleading information I have posted.

 

Sleeper berth must be 8 hours or more to extend the clock . It actually just suspends the clock . You subtract the hours clocked before the 8 sleeper from 14 and that's all you have left until the next break .

 

It's your license and the window for running dirty is still open just a crack just have the decency not to risk innocent lives by driving impaired.

 

Yes. I was just being lazy by not getting into the rules.

 

Be a moot problem by the end of the month.


The new regs state that all time spent in a parked CMV will be considered as off duty time.