You MUST read this! It helps me prove what I am trying to get you to understand!

I want to add! Trucking is like construction!

If construction is slow then your check is little

If trucking is slow then your check is little

If construction is going good you work.

If you are a driver and trucking is good you must run your butt off legally.

You can't make up for lost time by running illegal (well you can, however the outcome may not be so worth it). But if you can take the freight legally, get on the ball and use them hours of service the best you can legally!

You can actually drive probably 13 hours in one day so whats the problem. Yeah next day may not be "as" many but the following day might be 13 again.

Everyone averages everything to 11 hours in a 24 hour period, that's the biggest problem there!

The biggest problem right now is the ECONOMY is fried and we are all suffering in our paychecks one way or another! I know I am and I am not a truck driver!

Sometimes I would love to have a big lump sum pay check than a little pay check that only pays the bills. So steady income sometimes might not be the answer either. Just depends on each persons life style I guess

 

If you drive 11 hours you then can be on line 4 all you want! DOT does not care if you work around the terminal, office etc as long as you are not DRIVING that truck.

What i was saying (I beleive without re-reading through everything) is

Look at my examples. I hope it works out ok???
DOT doesn't say you only can work 11 & 14 hours in a 24 hour period.

They state in a 14 hour period you can not drive more than 11 hours. After that 14 hour (or sooner) you must stop and take a 10 hour break!

Does this clarify what I was saying? Many drivers lose miles not knowing this bit of information. They think line 3 driving time should not total more than 11 for that log sheet.

 

Yes you get held up 2 hours and everyone grips that 2 hours makes a difference and their upset. Now if you can log 2 hours as sleeper while at the customer (remember you must log the time DEALING with it as line 4) and you get a 2 hour break then when you are supposed to take your 10 hour break you only have to take 8 hours. Now understand also (adding to the brickman threasd) is your driving time after that 8 hours is not going to be 11 hours.
You will take the driving time i between the 8 & 2 and subtract that from 11. That's how many hours you can drive after the 8.

I had driver today saying he could not take a load but guess what in the end if he split breaks he could take the load. Sure it's small miles but hey it's money and he isn't sitting there picking his nose or talking to us
Had we not split breaked he could not have done the load and he would be sitting there making no money and picking his nose

After this we can start a new thread in the regulations to discuss split breaking with pictures or anything. But start a thread if you want to learn! I am in the mood right now so better hurrry! I should be doing other things

Please understand I didn't have much room to type out really what I would like. But look at the pictures and study them. Them log grids are perfectly legal logs. It shows you stopping for 2 hours or longer is fine and it shows loading etc in there. But the issue was I wanted to get the point across. You lost 2 hours that day due to customer now take an 8 and you are getting them 2 hours back to finish the driving time you didn't get to finish. The only issue is payroll cut off when the load delivers.

Not sure what happend to the images. However i can post in the regulations thread.