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My trainer taught me to drive 10 hours minimum 10 hour in sleeper birth and repeat to get 14 driving hours in a day but I was burnt out did it for 6 weeks

@@cruzolivas6319 That's horrible advice, absolutely horrible. That trainer is a selfish self benafitting asshole. He gets paid more for all the extra driving you do. If you go back and need retraining and the trainer is forcing you, call him out on it. If he doesn't back down call safety and they will deal with him and find you a new trainer. How it really works is. YOU WORK till you're not comfortable for me its usually 9 hours of driving, and 12 hours clocked on. This allows me to always go to bed at the same time, wake up the same time and have a few hours to relax before going to bed. If you can only do 7 drive and 9 hours clock in that's all you can do. One of the most important things is to have the same sleeping schedule don't mess with that. Depression kicks in, fatigue, anxiety everything goes downhill. That's a major nono in my book. Let's state how it really is, communication is key, if the delivery window is too tight let them know. If they bark back say these exact words in writing "I don't feel safe promising this delivery doing it within that time window" if they don't shut up you can sue. They won't push back at this point. Coming in I used to think everyone was the boss, this isn't true. The only boss is you,. You are the captain so what's comfortable with you. If you need 4 hours to relax before bed take 4 hours to relax. Need to sleep in, you sleep in. But make sure you communicate if you promised a delivery, you'll usually know the night before if you need extra sleep so place a new ETA

Y'all put too much value on home time you might as well go local

@@bobnewhart4318 I've been driving since 1984, I'll do 2800 miles this week started from my house Monday, be home Friday night and I have spent 2 nights at the house this week, and I live in Idaho. There is plenty of frieght that you dont have to pin ball all over the country, unless you want to or you have braindead lazy dispatchers. I also have a faithful beautiful wife, and an incredible home, and so does alex, I mean if one wants to hold a steering wheel his entire life and think all that money was all that important then go for it? We just live and die, we take absolutely nothing with us?

@@jerrythompson8532 im in lewiston right now. First day of school was today and trying to get the log books right. Recap lost me on the roll overs. So i had to come to good ol youtube for more instructions lol. There was too much small talk going on in the zoom class to focus.

Nobody cares

Watch ANY a truck vlog. They are up 6-9 am but have to wait till 10am+ to drive. I would rather drive when I want. Did a trip this winter. @900 miles personal. Heard bad weather on I 80. So I drove all night. Got to nice warm bed before weather got bad, roads closed. If working I legally couldn’t. Paper logs? Take off early evening. @1am park till I woke up. Then backtrack on 2nd log till leaving that morning, night before. Drive till tired, grab a nap. But forced hours. I get tired. ELD aids dangerous for me. So glad I am staying exempt, paper the few times.

Most the regs made on us where created by mega carriers.

What’s dumb about making sure you get proper rest? What’s dumb is went Truckers overwork themselves for an extra dollar and end up killing theirselves or another driver, now that’s dumb!!!

@@MrTuhefner trucking has the dumbest rules ever.

Exactly!!!

You have to be a company driver as for o/o it means more money I do 3.5 turns Wi to CA a month I'm never empty and I do own my truck

This makes sense to me

Just paid $5.07 yesterday... $2.58 increase in less than a year... .....Fucking criminal

Bring Me a couple hundred gal. I'll give You the money ( lol , just kidding ) ! Wish I could buy it that cheap where I live !

So I look at the extremes. 14hrs for 5days will net you 70hrs. Or 8.5hrs a day every day. If you really do log your logs right the driver that runs recap will have more downtime each day to better handle personal tasks and get a better rest when they are sleeping I believe. The driver that do resets will be burned out sooner. And would really require some real downtime for about a week or month then they’re be back at it again, and I believe from my past experience that burnout occurs on average around 3-5yrs. In my opinion it’s really about how you like to work. You are right about resets are easier for dispatchers and planners. But if you self dispatch recaps are better because you can choose your loads based on time you are receiving back. Resets are also good for drivers that like to drive during the day only. Recaps are good for drivers that like to night drive

Beat me to it

I get the impression he may have meant exempt from ELDs and can use paper sheets... which we can do,

I doubt that

@@shabadabadoo4326 Exactly.

you do your best to deliver it at that time

Ya this why I was thinking of going local for gym time and better meals but might just settle with home every weekend 😂

I run dry van. Have ran almost everything. Recaps suck period. Restarts are the best option. Technically speaking the dock wait is suppose to be on duty not driving.

Agreed also think there should be a designated lane for 62 mph mega carriers. There time killers and fuel. Gotta love getting stuck behind swift trying to pass prime on I-40, 75 mph speed limit and doing 55-60 mph with them bone heads impeding the flow of traffic.

If i run 11 hours.. will i gain some hours after being off for 2 hours?? Or do i must it be 10 hours off?

@@jorgeromero7532 you have to take the 10 hours

That's what I've been doing is going off duty sitting there getting loaded, unloaded.Last time I got loaded the place only had to put 3 more pallets on me and they went and took a break! Grrr but our other driver said if we get an audit they can bust us for not logging correctly, showing pre trips ,post ,fueling and loading 🤔

@@andyamysarizonaadventures5450loading and unloading is on duty and shouldn’t be off duty. Off duty is when ur free of all responsibility.

@@andyamysarizonaadventures5450 Yes you do need to log PTI, fuel, loading and unloading as On-Duty but the DOT does not really specify for how long. When I pull in the a shipper/receiver I log On-Duty from the time I get there to the time I bump the dock. Once I’m back in the truck waiting for them to pull everything off, I’m Off-Duty until they are finished. Once they are done I go back On-Duty, get my paperwork, send any macros to dispatch then get on down the road. I’ve had my logs audited many times throughout the years at various scales in many states and never had an Officer cite me for improper logs.

When you run 34hr reset, you can actually pick up a couple hours each day because you only go off duty for 10 hours... in a perfect world where you just drive and never get delayed... you have 11hrs driving, 15m pre trip, 30m break hopefully unloading or fueling etc., and 15m post trip/ end of day, drop trailer etc. So you have a perfect day every day, best case scenario of 11hrs driving and 1hr on line 4. That's 12 hours on, 10hrs off (22hrs so far), you then start your next driving period still on day 1! So you actually get 14 hours on duty with 10 hours between(shift 1 =12hr+ off duty 10hr + shift #2 for 2hrs =24hrs) So you get 14 hours in 5 days exactly 14x5=70hrs. Day 6 is restart hrs(all 24hrs). Day 7 is 10hrs of reset still, and at 10am day 7, you start driving, sleeping 10, and you get an extra 2 hours after your 10 hour break! Hooray! 14 hours on day 7! The formula keeps going that way for as long as you want... so in 8 days, all but 1 day is 14 hours of on duty time. 7x14=98 hours of making money 💰 vs the same 8 days X 8.75 hours = 70 hours making money. 98-70=28 hours of more money making than recap. Of course, that's a perfect world scenario, but the variables that cause delays will equally effect the driver regardless of which method they use. If you're gonna get stuck somewhere, start your 10 hour nappy time if you can... but when you're stuck, you're stuck... do your best to be efficient with your fuel and potty breaks, your drop times, and time them to match up to your 30m break on the"8hr clock"... hope this helps!

No the 70 hrs is on duty and driving combined. 11hrs of drive time in a 14 hour window. So if you work pit, fueling, inspections and loading unloading, scaling all has to be logged on duty drive time is anytime where the drive is in gear forwards or backwards. Even traffic, wrecks, construction. Now if your at a shipper with a secured yard with fence and guard on duty you can use on duty yard move. To save your drive time. If you maxed out each day to 14 that’s a five day window before you get to 70 hrs. 34 off Sunday morning you will have a restart and could hammer down if you stopped Friday night by 8 pm

this is wrong.

sorry I'm a noob here what does PC mean?

@@ijustwannabeadrummer personal conveyance

@@ijustwannabeadrummer no problem with asking questions. And one more thing dont trust anything you can't prove yourself. Because my comment sounds like its legal to move while on a 34 hr reset. But is it? R u going to take my word for it? Best not to. So instead open that little green bible and and confirm for yourself no offense btw. Its just best practice.

@@blueridgeocean 🤔 we need to see if they can ban PC for you. I guess it’s the companies vehicle so they have the final say in it. I guess they are trying to save money on fuel and other off duty liabilities ? I see PC is legal in the green bible during 34 hour reset as long as u are not extremely tired.

I multiplied 66 x 4 not 11 x 28

After 66 hours you burn up a day and a half to reset. So to get 66 X 4 = 264 hours with 4 resets you are at 30 days (29 days and 16 hours). 8.75 X 30 is 262.5 which is only 1.5 hours less.

@@DavidWilson-qw1to well technically he didn’t calculate it right you start work Monday at 7 that 7-9 each day if you tan your 14 each day that’s 70 hrs in five days Friday at 9 pm Sunday at 7 am you have a reset plus an extra day on that week so technically you can have 84 in a week six weeks later you would be starting on a Monday again giving you 84 hrs a week

Yes i do, it’s not a dot issue

70 on duty and driving

I just re watched the video I said 6 days of driving 1 day for restart. 6 x 11 = 66 66 hours a week x 4 weeks a month = 264 hours You can also do 66 x 52 weeks a year = 3,432 hours annually Where as on recaps if you do 8.75 x 365 = 3,194 Whether is weekly or annually restarts are better and more productive

He meant to say that you don’t have to run ELDs...which is true. You can run paper logs

The natural

Use whatever you have access to or can start with.

dually is not required for non cdl. 2500 is a more popular choice for non cdl. as far as which brand of truck.. thats personal preference. GL!

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It shouldn't unless you are coming up on the 14 hour clock

No recaps are worse because you’ll get less drive time for the month. Also it’s rare that load times are that long, usually it’s less than the 3 hours so it never gets into the drive time

​@@TowPiglet are you able to use personal convenience on the 10-hour off duty?

Good question. Aldo. Im OTR, and i couldn't make delivery times running on recaps but i could see advantages with some jobs

thanks