| WHLSOFSTL726012 |
02-21-2009 05:24 PM |
70 hr rule / more miles a week
ok this is how i have done it, and do it nowadays......i usually reset my 70 hr clock at home. that can be a disadvantage if u ran "hard" all week an run out jus b4 u get home or right at home. i just went thru not resetting my clock last week and gained like 9.5 hrs back from the monday b4 the one i got home on. i still have yet to find in the rules where it says we gain hrs back from 8 days ago... i mean it makes sense cuz the 1st day of last week falls off.
as far as the one guy askin how to make more miles....7000 miles a week is IMPOSSIBLE regardless how good u r. i mean ud have to never stop at a customer. if i run my logs at 60 mph <which i try to> i can legally run 660 miles a day (w/in 11 hrs a day) which comes out to 4200 miles i ran that week. NO ONE duz that, becuz ur constantly stuck somewhere (shp/cons/maint/wait for disp, etc. take 660times 6 then u have 4 hrs at the end of the week (240 miles). doin that screws ya when it comes to wantin to keep runnin w/o a 34 hr break)
when i was with werner, they had the electronic logs that figured my hrs out so i did alot of split breaks 8 hr sleeper then 2 hr at cons so if i delivered in milton pa, i drove to that petro, shut down for 8 hrs, then went over one exit to cons delivered there, and finished out my break (PLEASE REMEMBER TO DO UR 8 HR BREAK FIRST) i think they changed it to where u had to do 8 hrs 1st back in aug of 05, instead of 2 n 8, or 8 n 2 split that the videos always tell ya about in ur safety meetings or orientation.
hope this waasnt too confusing to understand lol:rofl:
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