Thanks for the link. Since we came back out after the 4th we have had a hard time making sure our restarts coincide. A little more prior planning is in order, but what a pain in the arse!
Having done a few restarts under the new rules, I'm not sure Diane and I have it figured out yet. We know what the rules are but orienting an on-again, off-again expediting schedule to them is less simple than it used to be.
We find ourselves now thinking about 5 a.m. in ways we did not before, and asking, at what point must we or can we begin a 34-hour restart to have it completed on or after 5 a.m.? That time is important because you now need two periods in the restart (two nights) that include the 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. time frame.
The effect is to turn a 34 hour restart into something longer. For example, you finish a load on Friday noon and head to a truck stop to park and do your restart. The "34 hour" restart will not be complete until Sunday at 5 a.m. because of the 1-5 requirement.
The other thing we do different now is to leave a note to ourselves somewhere where it will be easy to find that tells us when our most-recent restart BEGAN. That information becomes important because you can only begin your next restart seven days (168) hours after your most-recent restart began.
We are laid over this weekend and could have done a restart, but chose not to because if we do one now, we cannot do another one for seven days. We are "banking" our old restart so that if this week (schedule unknown) turns out to be such that a restart may be desirable on Wednesday, Thursday or any other day, we can do one, because it will have been over seven days since our last one.
We have enough hours to keep running without a restart this time. Taking restarts automatically whenever you can is no longer possible. So in addition to thinking about 5 a.m., we are noting the exact time and date when our most-recent restart began.
The old restarts were nice while they lasted. Whenever you wanted, you could hole up for 34 hours and restart work with 70 hours available. Those days are gone now, unless they change the rules again.