Splitting Sleeper Berth Questions

So I did a lot of research on understanding how splitting sleeper time works and I still have these remaining questions:

I know that if I start my shift at midnight, my 14 hour clock is set to expire at 2pm. But if I sleep for 8 consecutive hours within that 14 hour time, then my 14 hour clock will expire at 10pm. Am I correct so far?

Okay so when I was looking this up, I kept seeing something about how the remaiming 2 sleeping hours can restart my 14 hour clock fresh even if I took it at a different time than the 8 consecutive hours I had previously taken. So then my question is, do I have to take those 2 remaining sleeper hours within the 14 hour clock for it to work or can I go to sleep for only 2 hours after the 14 hour shift ended at 10pm and expect a new 14 hour time at 12am midnight? If the answer is the latter, how long do I have before sleeping for 2 hours won't work anymore and I would have to take my usual 10hr sleep?

That is question number one. Number two is: just as 8 consecutive hours in sleeper makes 14 hour clock freeze, is the case also with 2 hour sleeper? In other words, if I start my shift at midnight and then sleep for two hours and then continue work, will my 14 hour clock set to expire at 4pm now instead of 2pm?

My brain hurts real bad after reading the first....few sentences....lol

My brain hurts real bad after reading the first....few sentences....lol

You'll use it so rarely, I wouldn't even worry about it at this point lol.

My brain hurts real bad after reading the first....few sentences....lol

You'll use it so rarely, I wouldn't even worry about it at this point lol.

What, my brain, or the sleeper??

Hahaha! Now that's some funny s*it right there!

My brain hurts real bad after reading the first....few sentences....lol

You'll use it so rarely, I wouldn't even worry about it at this point lol.

What, my brain, or the sleeper??

Ummm I'm not gonna answer that... you might break out your sock of ball bearings :P haha i'm just kidding

I had this one recently explained to me and it really is confusing. It's honestly bet to go by the KISS policy... keep it simple stupid. drive for 11 hours (with a 30 min break before you reach 8), be on duty for a max of 14 hours with driving counting as on duty and then be off duty for 10 hours. If you choose to make any of that 10 in the sleeper birth it needs to be at least 8 hours consecutively to count towards the 10 hours required off duty... but then if you want to take the other 2 as just off duty feel free but I don't think anyone gonna come up to you and say "hey are you on off duty or sleeper birth now" and write you a ticket if you go take a shower or get some chow while on the sleeper birth time. they could but I think officers have better fish to fry. so in summary

14 hours on duty max 11 of those can be driving 30 min break before you reach 8 hours of driving 10 hours off duty with sleeper birth being required to be a min of 8 hours consecutively if you so choose to log it as so. you could go sleep in a hotel and just log it as off duty.

I think I said that all right. Trying to do the small provision of split sleeper time just overly complicates things and really isn't necessary except in very rare cases.

Now if you want I can pull out my little green trucker bible and type verbatim what it says about splitting sleeper birth but gosh it's complicated.

Hahaha! Now that's some funny s*it right there!

You and I. We're fighting. >:)

Hahaha! Now that's some funny s*it right there!

You and I. We're fighting. >:)

I forgot about your sock full of bearings. My apologies. I want to keep my brains in my head, lol. : )

Bwhahahaha!!! Sounds to me like the sock and ball bearings left an impression with a few....lollll

I *do* have brains. ;)

If you go to the practice tests on this site, you will see there is actually an explanation for it and questions to make sure you understand it.

basically it is you drive say 5 hours, then sleeper for 8 hours. you can then drive for another couple hours, then take 2 hours off (sleeper or off duty). This resets your 14 hr clock once you take the 2 hours. The 8 hours delays it, but the additional 2 hours resets it because now you have a total of 10 hours. Does that make sense?

Driving teams you rarely even care about the clocks because one of you almost always has time to drive so the truck never stops. Driving solo, the drive time is really important, but solo is given more time between pick up and drop off that this is not really used much. I was confused and nervous about it and my head swirled... then i realized with 2 different trainers and three months on the road it was not really used.

Just be sure not to go past 8 hours without a 30 min break. (down time at shipper/receiver can count as the 30 min break), do not go over the 11 hour drive time... and honestly... the electronic qualcomm will tell you if you are getting close. It will beep at 7 hours of driving to tell you about the 30 min break.. then will beep at 7:30 hours... then 7:50 hours.... then it beeps at 10 hours... so the machine will let you know. worry about driving lol