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Drivers can split sleeper berth time into two periods as long as neither period is less than two hours: One shift must be 2-8 hours (2/8 hour period) and can be spent in the sleeper berth, off-duty, personal conveyance or a combination of the three.

The 7/3 sleeper berth split: In a 7/3 split, you start with 7 consecutive hours off in sleeper berth status and then complete your required break by taking your next 3 hours later in the day. Similar to the 2/8 split, you can take a 3/7 sleeper berth as well.

Ing to the changes made in the hours-of-service rules, a driver must stay in the sleeper berth for seven consecutive hours, and then spend another three consecutive hours off duty (sleeping, eating, etc.) to fulfill the requirements of the sleeper berth.

This break can be fulfilled by on-duty non-driving periods of any kind as long as they last for 30 consecutive minutes. (i.e. waiting to be loaded, sitting in a parking lot, etc). 10-Hour Consecutive Break: Every 11-hour driving period must be preceded by a 10-hour consecutive breaking period.

Ing to the new HOS rules, the 8/2 split states that a driver may drive for up to six hours, and then take a two-hour off-duty break before driving another five hours.

To use the split-sleeper exception, you need to take at least a 7-consecutive hour break in the sleeper berth and a minimum 2-consecutive hour break that is off duty, in the sleeper berth, or any combination of the two, for a total of at least ten total hours in two qualifying breaks.

The so-called ?split sleeper berth? rule. For those not familiar, the split sleeper berth rule allows commercial drivers to split their mandatory 10-hour rest breaks into two non-consecutive segments and still reset their substantive time limits. The shorter of the two segments must be at least two hours long.