Teaming and HOS. What arrangement works best?

read the hours of service regulation in part 95

 

If I had to drive teams with my old man, you guys would be reading about the discovery of a body on an interstate somewhere.

You guys can't team on 8 hours, and each of you takes periodic breaks throughout your shift?
I dunno...those new HoS changes last year threw a lot of wrenches in a lot of machinery.


If there was an award for screwing things up, DOT would be getting it every year.

 

why would you want to team?

 

Decide on a 12/12 split time (perhaps 02:00/14:00 or 04:00/16:00) and each run a shift like they would as a solo while the other does nothing, at the switch time, switch and repeat. A lot also depends on just how "hard" they actually run you week in and week out. I recommend agreeing to a schedule and sticking to it ... good luck with that.

Just realize that if you're somewhere they can really run you hard 6+ days a week, you can/will still potentially find yourselve's needing to do a reset (running out of hours) ... good luck with that, too.

 

Always leave an hour on your 14.. You will gain hours back and won't be resetting when your 70 is up.. I know you always can't do that cause sh=t happens.. But always try ..

 

best arrangement is kicking him out and telling him your solo