Working Hours To Get Most Miles

Confused me all right.. I do hope they cover this in school..

Captain K, if your lucky they will skim over it, but I doubt they will explain it very well. This is vital stuff that they just don't have the time in school to teach you. They are more occupied with trying to get you licensed. But I can tell you where you can learn this stuff, and learn it thoroughly. There is the section on log books in the High Road Training Program , and it is the most thorough training you will find on this important subject.

A 34 hour reset is never required, but you've got to understand how to manage your time so that it will work out properly. I've been able to run for weeks at a time without doing a reset.

If you hit 70 before 8 days 34 will reset. Any 34 hour break will reset the 8 days and 70 hours is my understanding

That is not exactly true. As Redgator pointed out you can only do one reset in a 168 hour period, and also that 34 hour period must have two time periods of 1 am to 5 am in it.

You guys and gals can really benefit from spending several weeks studying your way through that High Road Training Program.

Uggg. So after reading this thread I decided to check out the logbook/HRS. section of the HRTP.... I got halted! I knew the answers to the questions, But like an idiot, I just hit the same wrong answer(S) more than once and kerdab! I wasn't guessing, I just got ahead of myself.... That's the IDIOT part.

Anyway, even know I was haulted, I went thru the sections over and over and re tested over and over. I now have a really good working knowledge of service hours and the like.

Anyone wanna talk about service hours..lol.

I know I am far from an expert on HOS but this is what I do. On days I only drive I will drive for 3 1/2 to 4 hrs. Then take my 30 min break. Then drive til I have 1- 1 1/2 hrs on my drive clock and park. this helps me a week later when I start my recaps. plus I will have a p/u or delivery or two in there that will burn into my 14 hr. daily clock and also help me out on the first 70. After your first week out there you will be working off of your recaps unless you take a 34 hr reset. So clock management becomes important. It was real tough for me to figure out at first but i did it. The longest I have been on the road in one shot was 7 weeks. didn't take a 34 any where in there and stayed rolling everyday.

I always try to get as close as possible to a shipper/receiver the night before if possible as that helps you out also. I know there are more experienced drivers here and I am sure they ways of doing it right. I just know what I do and what works for me.