Hi there, Rick with Smart Drive Test talking to you today about deferring
time in your Canadian log book. It's
unlikely you're gonna need to use this but in case you want to and you get
stuck out in a snowstorm, or traffic crash, or traffic congestion that's
unexpected you can do this and defer two hours of time from one day to the next
day which is day #1 to day #2. So today we're going to talk about that. We'll be right
back to tell you how to defer time in your log book.
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Hi there, Rick. Welcome back - talking to you about deferring time
on your log book, your Canadian log book.
You can defer time from day #1 to day #2, so the off-duty requirements on your
log book are 10 hours off-duty one 8 hour consecutive block and two other blocks
of not less than 30 minutes. Most drivers take those two additional hours in one
hour blocks of the four hour and eight hour increments so they break their
workday up into three four-hour blocks of 13 hours maximum driving time. Now you
can defer two hours from day #1 to day #2 and it must be checked on your
log book. There's a space as you can see here on the log book for day #1 and day #2.
You can reduce your 10 hours of off-duty time to eight hours of off-duty time so
long as the two hours at you reduce it by is not part of the eight consecutive
hours. So you still have to take 8-consecutive hours off duty. So
essentially what you're doing is eliminating the breaks as you can see
here on the log sheet for the day on day #1. Now that two hours off-duty must be
added to the eight-consecutive hours on day #2. So as you can see on the log
book here... you have on day #2 10-consecutive hours off-duty plus your two
additional breaks. So the two hours of off-duty time from day #1 have simply
been added to the eight-consecutive hours. So on day #2 you have 2 1-hour
breaks. On day two you have ten-consecutive hours off duty. That's how
you defer time from day #1 to day #2. As I said because the log book is a rolling
cycle... a rolling work cycle in Canada - I've talked about it in other videos that
there's no point working on cycle #2 because every seven days you have to
take 24 hours off-duty.
If you're gonna take 24 hours after you might as well take an additional 12 hours off-duty and
reset cycle #1 and go again. All of this is not really needed in the
industry because that 70 hours in 7 days is a rolling seven-day cycle. You
can find that video here on how to calculate your work cycle. Right there!
In conclusion, deferring time from day #1 to day #2. You can eliminate the two hours
of breaks on day #1. So the ten-consecutive hours off-duty - two hours can
be added to day #2, so you can essentially drive for 13 hours straight.
Eight consecutive hours off-duty on day #2. You're going to have ten consecutive hours off-
duty plus two hours of additional breaks not less than 30-minutes increments. If you like
what you saw it here
the complete courses over my website. You can find the link here. All of the videos
written down rules for log books, exercises to fill out - multiple choice/
true false questions concerning the exercises to reinforce everything you
need to both know about log books. There is a free calculator for figuring out your
work cycle and at the end you get a certificate of completion. All of that for less than $25.
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