What the new hours of service really mean.

As to the 1-5 am part on your reset. Just make sure you start your reset by 7pm at the beginning. The 34 hours will be fully encompassed in that time. As to the new 11 hour rule, it is just saying you cant drive a solid 11 hours. It really is asking you to take a meal time away from the steering wheel for 30 mins. Simple.

 

Sure, and really anytime before 1 am will get you covered . On the 30 min thing, plan for it. I'm not watched so I plan to fuel or eat or something....just find some productive way to burn it......

And it's only mandatory for driving past 8? Or on duty past 8?

 

Cut my CDL in half before I ran teams.

 

I have a shredder right behind me that would get fed mine.

 

That's all well and good if your reset time is at home. If your out on the road doing a reset, that would pretty much suck...

 

driving or on duty? I run dedicated with driver hand unload. the way our loads are set up now once we go on duty its on or driving til we pull back in to drop the mt at the end of our run. 10 , 12 hrs, sometimes with only minutes left on our 14.

 

It would include the on duty time as well. It ties to the last period of off duty time.


http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/topics/hos/index.htm

 

thats what I thought I remembered reading. Hmm, could very well cause sleeping in the truck more often than I do now. Really try to limit that since I live in the same town where the DC I work from is. My bed is better than the bunk!!!!

 

Its rare I have to do a reset on the road. I usually can stretch it out and recap but ive been running hard since last Sunday and when I got here to Rockwall, TX last night, I was at my 70 hrs and I wouldnt recap until midnight on Sunday. But this load has to be in El Paso before Monday so here I sit. What I may do is take another short run to Southaven, MS and back to El Paso and burn up some more hours and get some extra miles before I shut down for some time off.