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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.

Truck drivers have to follow regulations that govern how many hours they can drive per day, how to log their hours and how often they need to take breaks. The split sleeper berth rule allows a truck driver to extend a shift by splitting the required 10 consecutive hours of off-duty time into two shifts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You start driving again at 11 a.m. and you drive for four more hours until 3 p.m. You follow this up with eight hours in the sleeper berth for the second half of your split sleeper break. This is an example of an 8/2 split sleeper day with three hours of on-duty time and 10 hours of drive time.