Texas - hours of service

How many hours will you gain after tomorrow? It's just a matter of time management now. You have 9.25 hours, so stay within the 9.25 hours. If it's going to affect your delivery time, you need to let somebody know. For future reference, you need to not accept loads if you're not going to have the hours to make it.

 

It sounds complicated, but HOS is simple: you can't drive past 70 hours on-duty in an eight-day period.

At midnight, how many hours either Line 3 or Line 4 will you have used in the previous seven days. What is left is what you can drive today (Line 4 will eat into this time as well, since you can't drive past 70).

The same calculation will be used the next day. And the next. And the next.

The simple 'short-cut' will be to determine what you have left after driving today, and go back to the first day of your 8, and see what the total for Line 3 and Line 4 were. Add that to what you have left after today. That's what you have tomorrow.

And you're never truly every 'out of hours'. You can run off the recap for the rest of your life, if you wanted to. There's no restriction on it.

 

tell us how many hours you used each day and we can explain it better. for example if you used 10 hours each day, then you would have 19.25 tomorrow. What you have to watch out for is days you didn't run or only ran 6 hours or less, when you reach the 8th day after those short days you may wind up slim on hours. There used to be no 34 hour restart and we dealt with this every day.

 

Go back 8 days and post the on duty times for each day(this includes driving, and on duty not driving hours). Someone will calculate for you how many hours you have left to work tomorrow.

 

No, you don't have to use the restart. For example, if you used 11.25 hours everyday you could run 365 days/year with no restarts. you would be doing 78.75 hours every 7 days and after those 7 days you would always start with 12.5 hours available.

You just have to plan ahead a little bit. let's say in the past 7 days you used 11, 4, 9, 14, 14, 10, and 8 hrs today. you would have used the last of the 70 today. The good news is you will pick up 11 hours tomorrow, but you have to be careful because if you run all 11 hours tomorrow that will leave you with only 4 to run the day after tomorrow. Now if you run 6 hours tomorrow, how many will you have for the next day ? It would be 9, you have 5 of the 11 remaining + you pick up 4 more.

 

I purchased and am using the Eclipse logging software. It really helped me to understand how HOS works, and simplified it. They have a free trial, so you may benefit from trying it. I don't work for them, and I don't stand to gain anything by recommending their product.

It does all the calculations for you, including 8/2 splits.

 

In what country are you running 78.75 hrs in 7 days?!

Your second paragraph is wrong too. It's 70 hrs in 8 days. You'd have zero hours for your eighth day.