That Darned Clock Lol

Does anyone else feel like managing the clock is more work than driving when new?

I've been doing pretty well since I went solo I've ran 3200 miles my first week 3000 this week and then my lack of clock management starting biting myself in the but.

My question is without taking a reset if I'm trying to fix my 70( meaning I ran too many 10- 11 hour days) and I have a few days where I only get 5 or 6 hours back, what is the best way to do so with the smallest impact on my miles. I am trying to run around 8.5 hours when I can afford to but i had to repower a load and burned what I had saved. So should I keep trying to level it out or is there a better way to go about it?

Thanks in advance you guys provide so much help I am truly grateful that each of you are here to help rookies like me out

See if your DM , Dispatcher or whatever your company calls them, can get you a load that you pick up, but doesn't have to be delivered until two days later and isn't a ton of miles. This allows you to complete your 34 while under a load. I've done this a couple of times.

See if your DM , Dispatcher or whatever your company calls them, can get you a load that you pick up, but doesn't have to be delivered until two days later and isn't a ton of miles. This allows you to complete your 34 while under a load. I've done this a couple of times.

I'm on a dedicated tn to mi run they are flexible appointments so I could do talk to them about pushing one out enough for me to do it.

Dispatchers should be able to work around the little booboos. If you only get a few hours back, remind them so they don't stick you with something impossible.

I had a day where I'd only get three hours total of drive time in, called dispatch, and they switched my load for something more manageable. If you see a potential problem, send a message in as soon as possible. They err much like us, so plan on them not noticing your lack of hours.

Logan is watching the clock:

My question is without taking a reset if I'm trying to fix my 70( meaning I ran too many 10- 11 hour days) and I have a few days where I only get 5 or 6 hours back, what is the best way to do so with the smallest impact on my miles.

What you are describing is called "Running on your Recaps" or something. It's rare to drive those 8-1/2 hr. days all the time. Look on your Qualcomm: Hours of Service/Status tab for "Hrs to be gained" and "Hrs Gained in 2 Days". Those are your drive and duty hours you get back at midnight. (00h 00m means you're not on recaps, yet.) Also, on the 8-Days tab, there's a On-Duty column that shows those same duty hours - from the bottom up.

Neat trick: of you are planning to go past midnight, and you can legally drive at least to that magic moment, you automatically get the "next day's" recap hours. (But that's all you get for the next day! Don't use them frivilosly!)

Basically I got myself stuck in the cycle I had myself on a semi day schedule seeing that I'm running a dedicated account and all they do is ask for my eta. Then lately I've been running off nothing but what I was getting back so for a few days I was running at midnight, only able to run until 6am then shut down until midnight again

If you want to continue your "recap" you need to try to run as few hours as possible, until you get to a day, where you ran something like 11 to 13 hours and try to run 8 or 9 hours on that day. You are basically trying to even your hours out. 70 divided by 8 equals... 70/8= 8.75.

That is something to remember when running OTR. You can't run 14 hours everyday.

Dave

No because running so hard turns days into weeks, and weeks into years and so on. I was only supposed to be local and I always gotta ask someone what day of the week and what date it is.

Ok I gotcha I got 11 back last night I only ran 8 today so I'm saving those 3. Tomorrow will be a full day but it'll be the last 10-11 hour day on my clock I'll be all 8-9 after that, that's a big if but we'll see how it all works out