Split your break

I think if you are under dispatch or 'laden' you may not use Line 5 at all.

 

That's a Swift thing.

If an o/o drops his trailer at a truckstop, he may bobtail on line 5 (driving, not on-duty) for short distances for personal reasons. It's perfectly legal.

 

U can use it anytime. Drop ur trailer n go lol. Also star I've been doing that too lol

 

Yep you are right perfectly legal and my qualcom says so too...lol

 

i don't have a line 5.

 

Paper logs would just be Line 1.

As for the 8 hour you did last night... query:

Did you do a break of at least two hours the previous day? Otherwise, you may have violated your 11 and 14 hour rules.

Your 8 hour sleeper time means your 11/14 clocks START when you last did finished a break of AT LEAST 2 hours prior to the 8 hour, and continue until either your 11 hours are up from the end of that 2 hour break, until they're exhausted OR your 14 hour clock now became a 22 hour clock (14 + 8 hour sleeper) and has expired.


For instance, if you didn't have a break of at least 2 hours yesterday, your 11/14 starts when your 10-hour reset ended yesterday morning. It ran until you shut down. Your eight hour paused both your 11 and 14. When you started up this morning, you can only drive the remaining portions of those clocks, at which point the only way to continue is to do two consecutive hours Lines 1 or 2 (Line 5 technically doesn't exist, it's Line 1, to the DOT).

If you did do a break yesterday (say from 3pm to 5pm, and you drove non-stop to 915pm), then you only had from 515am to drive 6h45m and had 9h45m to do it in before requiring a break of at least two hours.

Also, remember, the two hour break DOES NOT extend your clock, Only the 8-hour sleeper can do that (and it is simply pausing your time from break of at least two hours until next break of at least two hours).

To sum it up easily: you're running two 11/14 clocks. One starts the moment you come out of your eight-hour (it runs 14 straight hours, and allows up to 11 hours driving), the other goes from the last break of two hours prior to the leaving the 8-sleeper, and ends 22 hours later (because the 8 paused it), and still only gives you 11 hours driving.

Another thing to remember: if you take more than 8 hours in the sleeper, but less than ten, the last eight hours is counted as your eight hour. If you spend 9 hours in the sleeper, that extra hour has cut into your available time from the previous 2 to the next 2. You didn't get a sudden 23-hour clock.

 

What's a trip plan?

 

Semi good for you, you just stepped up a notch and it'll help you in a jam.

Usually that's what's its used for. When your in a tight spot, and haft to run. Almost always right.

Good luck and drive safe.