What the new hours of service really mean.

Please define what is ment by a 8 / 2 split . for a newbie.. Thanx TBT 5150

 

I'm thinking it goes like this: if I drive for 6 hours of my 11..I go in the sleeper for 8 hrs..I can then drive my other five..but at the end of that 5 I have to go in the sleeper 2 hours..

Not sure though.

 

It is hard to explain the best thing you can do is read the regs at http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/topics/hos/index.htm

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JJ Keller has a book available, I broke down and bought it just to understand the hour of service better and to avoid violations. It has been a very helpful resource! For $11.49 it is well worth it!http://www.jjkeller.com/webapp/wcs/...ogs-Workbook-3rd-Edition_10151_-1_10551_60564

 

8-2 split......you can drive your full 11 if you want. Then you have to take your 10 hr break. You may go into the sleeper berth for 8 hrs then get up and drive to consignee and then you HAVE to be in the sleeper berth for 2 more hrs. But as I recall, whatever I drove in between the 8 & 2 those hrs came off of my next days drive time. And while you are driving, if you are on Elogs, it will show you as driving in the negative until that 2 hr sleeper berth is up. Then everything will balance out.

 

The regulation is: "...driving is not permitted if more than 8 hours have passed since the end of the driver's last off-duty or sleeper-berth period of at least 30 minutes."

All you gotta do is take a 30 minute break somewhere in the middle of your 11 hours of driving! How tough is that? Just make sure you do not have more than an 8 hour stretch of driving before or after the break, and you are good!

 

Lot of these drivers spend 30 minutes or more in trk stops looking for lot lizards,use that for the 30 min break.lol just saying

 

ur gonna confuss lot of these drivers scalemaster by saying take a 30 min brk somewhere in the middle of 11 hrs.Should of said 8 hrs.

 

Don't forget the new rule about the 34 hr break and when you can use it. 168 hrs of consecative on and off duty hrs after the two times you must pass first.
And he or she must indicate in the Remarks section of the record of duty status which such off-duty period is being used to restart the calculation on the log book.

Hours of service of driversof Federal Regulations

§ 395.3Maximum driving time for property-carrying vehicles. <------ Click Here

 

I wonder how many of the drivers complaining bout having to take the 30 min break would work a regular job where they were told they had to work 11 straight hours w/out a break?? Or having to work a 70 hour week-- w/out overtime?? What would u say to that??? IMHO its all much to do about nothing--although im sure someone will tell me how wrong I am--
Besides i am thoroughly convinced many if not all of these will never c the lite of day--look how long its been going on--2 many lawyers on both sides making way too much money off all this and they KNOW just which federal judges in each district to go to get yet another injunction--to keep them from going into effect for a few hundred more billable hours---call me jaded
Just my $.02