Most drivers never have to deal with the 14 hour rule and how drivers can work as long as they want as long the driving does not exceed 11 hours after the 10 hour break.

It is much easier to understand the rules if you do things simply at first. Start your day at 6:45 with a 15 minute pre-trip on line 4. Go to line 3 for 5 hours and then go to line 1 for one hour. Get some food and take a short nap. Go back to line 3 for 5 hours and shut down for the day. Take 30 minutes for a post-trip and logging, then go to off duty until the same time the next day. Rinse, repeat until this makes sense forward and backward. It can very easy to get screwed up when your driving jumps from one log sheet to the next.

I rarely had to log tons of line 4 until I was running regional at the tail end of my career. I would arrive in Seattle or Portland at say 8:30 and stay on line 4 doing deliveries all over town. I would drive maybe 80 miles and make the 7 or 8 stops all on line 4 labeled as "Seattle, WA - multiple stops". No problems until it was time to drive to Portland and I had to make up for the 80 miles driven in Seattle. No big whoop.

OTR is mostly about pre-trips, driving and sleeping. Lines 4, 3 and 2.
This whole deal is not that complicated. Slow down (mentally) and try to not do too much with your log book. Keep it simple.

 

Your theory is fine. Now if you can get all the shipping and receiving departments to go along with it. But until such time drivers can't start their driving at the same time every day.

A better way is to simply learn how to do your logbook.

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