sleeper berth 10 hour break

sleeper berth 10 hour break
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 7:21:52 PM

Hi
i'm new to this board, I'm with big blue and we have paperless logs on the qualcom, my question is, I was told by another big blue driver that if they interuppt your sleep time during your ten hour break, with a buzzed message, that illegal and you can start your break again from the time they buzzed you and woke you.

I can't find it anywhere and came across this board when googling about interuppted 10 hour breaks

Rick the Brit

RE:sleeper berth 10 hour break
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:40:39 PM

Rick,

I beleive some one informed you incorrectly. The regulations require a total of ten hours, not ten interupted hours.

RE:sleeper berth 10 hour break
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 11:27:09 PM

The 10hr rule means 10 off duty or sleeper or 8hr sleeper 2hr off duty, they can beep you anytime they desire, hate to tell you that but it`s true

RE:sleeper berth 10 hour break
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:06:47 PM

The DOT Interpretations - 395.2 (from the big book) says:

Question 5: Do telephone calls to or from the motor carrier that momentarily interrupt a driver's rest period constitute a change of the driver's duty status?

Guidance: Telepphone calls of this type do not prevent the driver from obtaining adequate rest. Therefore, the FHWA does not consider these brief telephone calls to be a break in the driver's off-duty status.

Question 30: If a driver is required repeatedly to respond to satellite or similar communications received during his or her sleeper berth period, does this activity affect a driver's duty status?

Guidance: Yes. The driver cannot be required to do any work for the motor carrier during sleeper berth time. A driver who is required to access a communications system for the purpose of reading messages from the carrier, responding to certain messages (either verbally or by typing a mesage), or otherwise acknowledging them, is performing work. For the purpose of this guidance, "repeatedly" means a pattern or series of interruptions that prevent a driver from obrtaining restorative sleep during the sleeper berth period.