Split Sleeper Berth Explained

A simple explanation of split sleeper berth, using slides and sample logs to make the concept easier to follow.

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Transcript

0:00 Hello everybody, this is a video that will explain the new regulations that started
0:06 September 29th 2020 regarding the split sleeper berth option in order to explain the
0:11 new
0:12 Regulations we will start with the older regulation about the split sleeper berth
0:16 The older regulation was 8 plus 2 split sleeper berth
0:21 Which means that the driver can combine always eight hours sleeper with some period
0:26 of two hours
0:27 Either off-duty or sleeper berth that he had in the middle of the day as you can see
0:32 on this example over here
0:33 the driver has a three hours off-duty in the middle of the day and
0:37 He can combine those three hours with an eight hour sleeper berth
0:42 Later that day
0:44 He started his day at 6 a.m. And pretty much his 14 hour clock expires at 8 p.m
0:50 So as it doesn't matter that the driver was three hours off duty in the middle of
0:55 the day
0:55 There was no option
0:56 For that 14 hour clock to be stopped
1:00 So as you can see the driver stopped at this moment at 8 p.m
1:05 So after eight hours of sleeper berth the driver will have available for driving
1:09 whatever was left from the period
1:13 between the small the short break and the long
1:17 sleeper berth
1:19 Portion so he was driving three and a half hours over here
1:22 Which means that after eight hours of sleeper by the older regulation the driver
1:26 would have
1:26 Seven and a half hours available for driving can
1:30 Because he had only four hours on duty over here
1:33 He would have a ten hours available from the 14 hour clock and seven and a half from
1:38 the
1:39 11 hour driving clock
1:41 so with the new regulations
1:43 the drivers are now able to combine eight plus two
1:49 or
1:50 Seven plus three or anything between seven plus three and eight plus two so
1:55 the short period has to be at least two hours off duty and the long period of duty
2:01 or
2:02 sleeper berth, or even a combination between off duty and sleeper berth
2:06 But at the long period it has to be at least seven hours in a
2:11 sleeper berth again
2:12 seven hours is beautiful
2:13 The short
2:13 period and the long period
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2:15 Has to be at least 10 hours or
2:18 more
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2:20 bigri
2:21 big news about the new regulation is that
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2:25 the period that they are dealing with.
2:26 the driver will stay off duty in the middle of the day and like we said that has to
2:32 be at least two hours his 14 hour clock it's paused at that
2:37 moment so the driver pretty much stops his 14 hour clock so as you can see on this
2:42 example the driver started at 6 o'clock but instead of stopping at 8 because he's
2:48 14 hour clock by the old regulation would finish at 8
2:55 p.m. he's by the new regulation
2:57 he is able to press pause stop the 14 hour clock during these three
3:03 hours of duty the thing is that if the driver wants to do that then he will have to
3:09 combine these three hours of duty with at least seven hours of sleeper berth
3:15 later that night so what is very important is that the driver cannot combine that
3:21 with any off duty later that day it has to be at least seven
3:26 hours of sleeper berth
3:27 sleeper berth to be legal on this logbook so still
3:33 the driving time it's 11 hours nothing has changed regarding the driving time
3:39 so the driver will have to stop whenever he reach 11 hours driving but
3:45 as far as the 14 hour clock the big news is that for that period that he's off duty
3:51 the time it's not going down on the 14 hour clock so
3:56 basically the driver still
3:58 can go three hours of duty over here combined with seven hours sleeper berth once
4:02 he's done with the seven hours sleeper berth the driver can start the day and finish
4:06 whatever was left from the period between the short break and
4:12 long sleeper berth break over here the driver was driving for six and a half hours
4:17 which means that after the long seven hour sleeper berth he can continue and finish
4:22 the rest four and a half until he reach 11. so any periods
4:27 between this off duty and this off duty and this off duty and
4:33 the sleeper berth still cannot be over 14 or over 11 hours
4:39 driving same with the next period so this period of driving or
4:45 on duty before the seven hours sleeper berth and the next period between this seven
4:50 hours sleeper berth and the next period of the three hours of duty again the driver
4:55 cannot have more than 11 hours driving
4:58 driving or 14 hours on duty.
5:03 As you can see in the next day the driver after seven hours of sleeper and four and
5:08 a half hours driving which brings him to 11 hours and pretty much tells him that he
5:14 has to stop and do a mandatory three hour rest because he had only seven hours of
5:19 sleeper. You can see that that rest it's off duty and sleeper berth which is
5:24 completely fine. So the short period of break can always be off duty sleeper berth
5:29 or on duty sleeper berth.
5:29 Any combination the long period of at least seven hours always have to be a sleeper
5:35 berth. You can see that after this break the driver was driving seven hours but this
5:40 seven hours driving and four and a half before the break puts him on 11 hours and 30
5:46 minutes 11 and a half hours driving for that day which means the driver eats in
5:51 violation on the driving time even though his 14 hour clock start at 6 a.m. and if
5:56 it's extended by these three hours of duty that means that
5:59 the driver eats legal on his 14 hour clock by 11 p.m. he's in violation
6:05 of the driving times. So whatever comes first 11 hours driving or 14 hours on
6:11 duty the driver will have to stop and do the next mandatory rest.
6:18 So we go between day two and day three you can see the driver over over here stayed
6:23 for three hours off duty for seven hours then goes in a sleeper berth. So in this
6:28 case the driver stays
6:29 seven hours on duty.
6:30 and a half hours of sleeper even though the minimum requirement because he was three
6:35 hours on break over here the minimum requirement is another seven hours if the
6:41 driver stays seven and a half that means that he's still legal on the day before
6:46 but that puts him in a situation that later that day he don't have to do another
6:51 three hours but only two and a half because the combination between the short break
6:56 and long sleeper berth break again will be total of at least seven hours.
7:00 So as you can see the driver went seven and a half hours in sleeper berth
7:06 once he's done with that he can continue and driving whatever was left from the day
7:12 before between the short break and long break so that's seven hours driving and the
7:18 driver once he starts the next day he's able to finish another four in order not to
7:22 go over 11 hours of driving.
7:25 Again the only duty time over here it's also seven hours because there is nothing
7:29 else except driving.
7:30 And that once he starts his next day that means that he will have available seven
7:36 hours on the 14 hour clock and four hours on the driving time so after the driver
7:41 reached 11 hours of maximum available driving time then he will have to do another
7:47 Monday three break in this case like I said because the driver was sleeping for
7:52 seven and a half hours in order for him to satisfy this sleeper berth regulation and
7:57 he will be just fine to start driving only after that.
8:01 After two and a half hour short break after the two and a half hour short break the
8:06 driver starts again and finishes another five hours of driving which brings him
8:11 total of nine hours driving and he reaches the destination.
8:15 So that's pretty much how the new regulation about the split sleeper berth
8:21 works like I said the big news about the whole thing is that the short period
8:26 of the break during the day which has to be at least seven hours.
8:51 So by the new regulation of the split sleeper berth the driver is able to stop his
8:56 14 hour clock for whatever period he's off duty in the middle of the day if he
9:01 combines that with at least seven hours of sleeper berth later that
9:06 day.
9:08 So if we go by this example over here if the driver
9:13 is four hours off duty that means instead of by the old regulation it was if he
9:18 started 8 a.m. his 14 hour clock.
9:24 With this, he can extend for another 4 hours or until he reached the total hours
9:30 of driving which is 11, so that means that the 14-hour clock
9:36 in this situation, the driver can extend it until 2 am next day, but he stopped at
9:41 11.30 pm because he was close to his 11 hours driving expiration.
9:47 The important thing is that once the driver stops, he cannot combine these 4
9:52 hours with 6 hours sleeper berth because the minimum requirement for the long
9:58 break that goes in a sleeper berth is 7 hours.
10:02 So even though the driver stayed 4 hours off duty, later that night he will still
10:07 have to complete at least 7 hours of sleeper berth.
10:12 Once he completes his 7 hours of sleeper berth plus these 4, he comes back.
10:17 Once he comes to 11 hours of rest, we need to be at least 10 or more, the driver can
10:22 start driving and finish whatever he's left for driving between the short break and
10:27 the long break in a sleeper berth.
10:29 So he was driving 8 hours over there, that means that the next day he has only 3
10:34 hours available for driving.
10:35 On our example over here, the driver was driving for 4 hours and that puts him in
10:41 violation for 1 hour over the 11-hour limit.
10:46 So over here...
10:47 We have a 1-hour violation on the 11-hour clock, so in order
10:52 not to be in violation, the driver had to stop after 3 hours of driving
10:58 and once the driver goes off duty, since he had 7 hours of
11:04 sleeper berth, now at this moment, it is enough for him to do another 3 hours off
11:09 duty, sleeper berth or any combination in order to satisfy the split sleeper
11:15 berth rule.
11:16 We have a 1-hour violation on the 11-hour clock, so in order not to be in violation,
11:17 the driver has to stop after 3 hours of driving and once the driver goes off duty,
11:17 sleeper berth or any combination in order to satisfy the split sleeper berth rule.
11:17 For having at least 10 hours in which one of the periods is at least 7 hours and the
11:22 other one is at least 2 hours and over here the combination is 7 plus 3.
11:28 Thank you.