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Originally Posted by SMB
Ok when I went to CDL school I believe they told me that on your 9th day you could regain your hours that you started with on the 1st day you started driving, so if you ran out of your 70 you could take say the 9 hours the first day you drove you could add them back to your 70 and have 9 hours to drive and do the same on the 10th and so on so you can keep moving and not take a 36? Is this true and if so how does it work exactly.
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Yeah, that's pretty much the gist. Think of it this way: if you only logged 8.75 hours per day, you would get 8.75 hours back on your logs forever. (8.75 X 8 = 70). So anything above or below that 8.75/day gets added or subtracted when you start getting your hours back (in the absence of a 34-hour reset). Let's say:
Monday: 9 hrs
Tuesday: 8 hrs
Wednsday: 11 hours
Thursday: 10 hours
Friday: 9 hours
Saturday: 10 hours
Sunday: 9.5 hours
At the end of 7 days, you're at 66.5 hours, which means you can only work 3.5 hours on Monday (70-66.5=3.5). On Tuesday, you'll start getting your hours back from the previous week, which in this case is 9 hrs. Let's say on that day you only work 8 hours, then on Wednsday you'll get back 9 hours (8 from the previous Tuesday plus 1 you didn't work that gets added on).
Technically, the best way to truck from a revenue standpoint is to run/log as much as you can and then reset because it allows you to work more over a given time period. Let's say:
Monday: 12 hours
Tuesday: 12 hours
Wednsday: 12 hours
Thurdsay: 12 hours
Friday: 12 hours
Saturday: 10 hours
Saturday/Sunday/maybe part of Monday: reset for a consecutive 34 hours.
Monday: get a fresh 70 back
See the difference? In the prior log, you could only work 3.5 hours on Monday, but you get 14 back on this log. Keep maxing your hours and resetting and you'll be able to run more miles over a given time period. Downside is that you won't have much of a life. Not that you will anyway being chained to the truck 24/7.
Go local and then you won't have to worry about filling out a logbook unless you go over 12 hours in a day. Best part is that you can reset at home in your lazy-boy instead of a filthy truckstop with rivers of pi$$ flowing through it.