Why do drivers not know how to run a recap anymore?

Okay, stupid question. What do you mean by recap?

I have yet had to do a 34 hour reset. I don't lie about my hours driving but I do fudge the book a little on my load/unload times.

 

i get home on the weekends so a reset works well for me. i dont need to recap when i know ill be reseting my 70 everyweek.

 

You can't always choose the hrs you run each day. Some loads require a driver to run a full 11 hrs per day to get it there on time. Now if a driver works for a company that gives you 4 days to run 1000 miles then yeh, you can put in 8 or 9 hours a day.

 

I run up to 31 days without a reset, avg 450-500 miles per day, bump my 70 starting the 8th day and again every day after. If you know how to plan, allow for the unexpected, and work your plan it keeps the wheels turning. Today is day 20 and accepted a 1700 mile dispatch an hour ago.
Will deliver in 3.5 days and still have hours to reload after the delivery. Working the recap and knowing when and how to split sleeper to meet appointments are 2 valuable money making tools OTR drivers need to have.

 

I run pretty hard and usually at the end of 5 days I'm out of hours...I do a reset! Because It'll take longer to wait for the hours to catch up to me than to "reset".

I usually time it so the reset happens on the weekend and I can relax and not be concerned about being off during the week.

 

Same here.

 

Thought this was going to be about tires.

 

I will run on my recaptured hours when I need too. I was going home every weekend for a long time, so I got a restart in every weekend.
Now I am staying out 2 weeks at a time, and normally on Monday I only have a few hours to run.
If I am getting back good hours at midnight (which normally I do) I will wait till midnight and run as I need too the rest of the week as I get hours back.
When I was running flatbed I was normally out of hours by the end of day 5. And this was with a little fudging on load/tarp times.
On Van I do not need as much on duty not driving time, so I can make my hours last thru day 7 most of the time. Then just sit some on day 8.

 

I get a reset every weekend at home

 

I have not done a recap in years as I have had no need but I get to use a 24hr reset