Split Sleeper-Berth Eligibility Checker
Screen a property-carrying driver's paired rest periods against the FMCSA split sleeper-berth duration rule: at least seven consecutive hours in the berth, at least two other consecutive off-duty hours, and at least ten hours combined. This does not calculate a 34-hour restart.
Description
Screen a property-carrying driver's paired rest periods against the FMCSA split sleeper-berth duration rule: at least seven consecutive hours in the berth, at least two other consecutive off-duty hours, and at least ten hours combined. This does not calculate a 34-hour restart.
Split Sleeper-Berth Eligibility Checker: Screen a property-carrying driver's paired rest periods against the FMCSA split sleeper-berth duration rule: at least seven consecutive hours in the berth, at least two other consecutive off-duty hours, and at least ten hours combined. This does not calculate a 34-hour restart.
When to use Split Sleeper-Berth Eligibility
Use this logistics calculation for a transparent shipment, inventory, warehouse, customs, packaging, carrier, or service-level estimate when the governing units and business rules are explicit.
- Sleeper berth (h)
- Consecutive hours spent in the sleeper berth.
- Other off duty (h)
- The paired consecutive off-duty period, which may be inside or outside the berth.
How Split Sleeper-Berth Eligibility works
Screen a property-carrying driver's paired rest periods against the FMCSA split sleeper-berth duration rule: at least seven consecutive hours in the berth, at least two other consecutive off-duty hours, and at least ten hours combined. This does not calculate a 34-hour restart. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.1
- Valid split
- Whether the pair satisfies the split-sleeper rule.
- Total off duty (h)
- Total combined off-duty hours of the pair.
Limitations and assumptions
- Carrier tariffs, customs rules, dangerous-goods requirements, hours-of-service rules, surcharges, port terms, dimensional divisors, and service definitions vary by jurisdiction, contract, date, mode, and commodity. A calculation is not a booking, classification, or compliance determination.
- Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.
Alternative or Complementary approaches
Verify current carrier and authority documents, retain shipment dimensions and timestamps, test boundary cases, and reconcile estimates against invoices and operational scans.
References
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Trucking industry in the United States — Wikipedia contributors
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