Originally Posted by aventhusiast

I believe the phrase “average daily” covers your concern and would result in 15:45 credit, so hopefully they would stop building trips like that. “Average duty period” is the problem, which would result in 10:30 like you are saying. You might have an inefficient day still such as a one leg day with a short leg followed by a heavy day where you do 8-9 hours but the average drags that last day down, but it would eliminate the long low paying trips.