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Originally Posted by syl77dar
only one thing to add avoid a hot shower before or during your drive time can make you sleepy also, when I first started out I would drive 5 hours on 5 hours off, but now they changed that rule. So do 5 hours then stop and fuel then try 3 hours, then take a two hour break and extend your 14 hour rule and do another 2 hours, it works I have done this.
Well.... your math works out to be "legal," but you are
NOT extending your 14 hour clock/rule by taking that 2 hour nap. You are "delaying" the last 2 hours of your 11 alloted for driving (actually only drove 10).... but still accomplishing it within the 14 hours.... which does
NOT change. :wink:
Nothing wrong with the way you are "working up" to the 8 hours with only a fuel stop, but if it was me.... and I had gotten used to the 5 and 5, I'd drive 5, sleep 3, drive 5 more, with a fuel stop and break thrown in there somewhere to break up the last 5. Just a thought.