The 70 hour rule is also on an 8 day cycle. Meaning if you max out your 70 hours in 6 days, you can't work for 34 hours after that, even though that makes it less than an 8 day cycle, so that's a little confusing. The 34 hour reset is actually voluntary, and makes it so you can reset your hours at any point during the week, which is especially helpful for longhaul truckers, not necessarily for UPS drivers. The 34 hours is not required to reset your hours at the end of the week. According to the DOT 60 hr rule UPS could work us 7 8+/hour days every week, as long as we got 10 hrs between each shift. Or, under the 70 hr rule they could work us 9 hr days for 7 days, then 7 hours on the 8th day, then we would reset the next day.