What Is Rolling Clock?

I heard this term recently, I think it was something like "Rolling Clock" vs "Running out your clock". I know it has something to do with your 11 hour driving period, but could someone explain it it simple terms?

I heard this term recently, I think it was something like "Rolling Clock" vs "Running out your clock". I know it has something to do with your 11 hour driving period, but could someone explain it it simple terms?

The rolling clock is a 24 hour time period but that can also be extended to a week.

Say for easy math you work 10 hours a day for 70 days and so that means you hit your limit for 8 days... On day 9 you start getting your hours back even without a reset. You can continue to roll this clock all week because every minute that goes by you get that back on your clock. Even though you work your 10 hour shift on day 9 you are ok because you gain back the time you used on day 1.

I understand how it works but I can not explain it very well.... Or maybe this is what you were looking for... LOL

On running out your clock, you can do that 3 different ways.....

Driving for 11 hours Working for 14 hours or working for 70 hours in 8 days.

I heard this term recently, I think it was something like "Rolling Clock" vs "Running out your clock". I know it has something to do with your 11 hour driving period, but could someone explain it it simple terms?

I'm very bad at explaining things but a rolling 70 is where you manage your clock to never run out on the road by doing about 9hrs average. That's an average, you don't have to run 9hrs every day. You can run 11, 7, 9 etc... as long as you can keep track of your hours and average it out so you never run out because once you run out of hours you minus well reset. You can actually do about 9.3 hrs every day and be fine but of course in trucking you can't always predict your schedule so you will find that some days are longer than others and you have short days thrown in there. It's all about time management and trip planning.

Aww dang! I thought it was when we took those old round clocks off the wall at school and rolled them down a hill!