NevadaJim wrote:
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So if I drive 69 hours in 8 days then I don't need a 34 restart?
Might NOT, if you have hours from the first of those 8 days to carry over.
Or is there a restart every 8 days regardless.
NO. There is not.
Can the restart be avoided or is it mandatory every 70 hours?
Yes. It can be avoided by not "burning" up all your hours in less than 8 days. i.e. having some to add back into the pot.
I'm assuming the 70 hours means 70 hours of driving time.
NO. It is a total of lines 3 and 4 (as was said) but a violation ONLY occurs if you DRIVE past the 70 hour point.
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Now... let's start OVER, shall we?
You cannot
DRIVE if you exceed 70 hours of ON DUTY (3 & 4) in 8 days.
There are
TWO ways to get hours back. The "rolling" method is this:
At the end of seven days, add your TOTAL hours worked 3 & 4. Let's say that comes to 65 hours. Subtract from 70, and you have 5 hours that you can DRIVE on your 8th day. You MAY work more on line 4, but then you have to add both lines together to show how much you have WORKED in 8 days.
If this total exceeds 70, you cannot DRIVE the next day, until you get more hours back at midnight of that day.
However, if you've NOT exceeded 70, at midnight of the 8th day, you count your total hours worked for the past 7 days including today. That means you get
BACK the hours you worked on the 8th day back! Take this NEW total of 7 days worked, and subtract from 70. That is how many hours you can DRIVE the next day,
provided you have not exceeded 70 hours INCLUDING all 8 days. (the 8th day back STILL counts against your 70 rule.)
Okay.... THAT's clear as MUD! :shock: :lol: I'll come back to that!
The RESET method is this:
When you have come close to, or exceeded 70 hours TOTAL worktime in 8 days or LESS, you can - at anytime- begin a 34 hour reset to get ALL 70 of your hours back! Your NEW 8 day period and 70 hours begins as soon as your reset is over. [This can OFTEN be gotten by adding your 10 hour break following a day of driving/working to a 24 hour "layover."]
Now, back to the difficult "rolling" method: You are allowed to drive 11 hours/day, right? But, NOT indefinitely! Let's use 10 hours a day. If you drive/work TOTAL 10 hours a day for 7 days....
you are maxed out. On the 8th day, you cannot
DRIVE. Might as well take a 34 hour reset as to sit for 24 just to get ONE day's hours back. [And... if that day happened to be sitting waiting for a load, you might get ZERO hours back.]
Now, if you use the method given to us by Crackaces some time ago, you can LIMIT your activities (or AVERAGE them out) to 8.75 hours TOTAL work per day. 8.75 X 8 days = 70 hours in 8 days. At midnight you will get back 8.75 hours to work or drive the next day. If you can manage your time well enough, you could keep this up
INDEFINITELY without having to take a reset OR sit for a day. [MY luck, the day I get back 3 piddly hours, my dispatcher would want me to drive 11!]
Personally, I wouldn't want to tell my dispatch that I can't make a Thursday delivery because I will
ONLY work 8.75 hours a day! I THINK he will want you to "burn asphalt" and get 'er done.....
THEN tell him you are out of hours and must take a reset before he dispatches you another load.
I
HOPE I have cleared this up for you. In short.... you
CAN manage your time and keep running 365 days a year.... but it is not usually feasible. More likely, you will be taking 34 hour resets whenever you can get one, to get
ALL your hours back.
Just remember: 11 hours / day = 70 hours in JUST over 6 days! 14 hours / day = 70 hours in 5 days! What you gonna do for the other 3 days?