60/70-Hour Recap Calculator
Enter when you were on duty for the last 8 days. See how many hours you have left today, exactly when recap hours come back over the next week, and whether your time off already contains a 34-hour restart. Everything is computed on this page — nothing is uploaded.
How the recap math works
Under 49 CFR 395.3(b) you may not drive after being on duty 60 hours in any 7 consecutive days (or 70 hours in any 8 if your carrier operates every day of the week). The window rolls: on day D, only the on-duty hours of days D−6 (or D−7) through D count. When a day falls out the back of the window, its hours stop counting — drivers call that recap. This calculator projects, day by day, when each chunk of your week stops counting and how many hours that frees up.
Two things the window will never do by itself: add driving time (the 11-hour daily driving limit is untouched by all of this), and restart. Only 34 or more consecutive hours off duty ends a 7/8-day period and zeroes the count — that's the reset checker above.
Passenger-carrying drivers: under 49 CFR 395.5 you count hours the same way (60/7 or 70/8), but the 34-hour restart does not exist for you — §395.3(c) is written for property-carrying vehicles only. Ignore the restart verdicts; your weekly hours only clear through days falling out of the window. Passenger sleeper-berth pairing rules are also tighter — see the
passenger-carrying HOS guide.
Not legal advice. Your ELD is the authoritative record and its HOS engine is what roadside inspectors and your carrier audit. If this page and your ELD disagree, trust the ELD — then check whether a missing edit or annotation is the cause (
why ELDs flag valid days).
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FAQ
How do recap hours work?
Under the 70/8 rule, on-duty hours only count inside a rolling 8-day window. When a day drops out of that window, its hours stop counting — that is what drivers call recap hours. They don't return as a lump; the capacity they free up reappears on the day the window rolls past them.
What is the difference between the 60/7 and 70/8 limit?
If your carrier does not run trucks every day of the week you are limited to 60 hours in any 7 consecutive days. If it operates every day, you get 70 hours in any 8 consecutive days. The 70/8 window is one day longer and holds more hours, so recap flows back more gradually.
Does a 34-hour restart work for passenger-carrying drivers?
No. The 34-hour restart is written in 49 CFR 395.3(c), the property-carrying section. Passenger-carrying drivers under 49 CFR 395.5 follow the same 60/7 and 70/8 counting but have no restart option — this calculator flags that in its reset results.
What breaks a 34-hour restart?
Any on-duty activity, even a few minutes, breaks the 34 consecutive hours off duty. Sleeper-berth time counts as off duty for this purpose, but one minute of on-duty not driving restarts the 34-hour clock.