I couldn't work this out on paper logs

I’m not an expert on the rules that cause this as I don’t use them, company doesn’t like us using them and it’d push me into working weird hours whereas I prefer to keep my days relatively normal.

However, I think you invoked 2 different rules there. First of all you did a load of work/driving, looks like roughly 8hrs? You then took 8hrs off, this break doesn’t reset anything but it basically stops the 14hr clock, so once you’ve finished the 8hrs you still have the remaining 2hr50 left from when you started.

You then took another break of 8hrs and that kicked off the split sleeper rule which reset your driving clock from the END of your last break which was the 8hrs you had before you got unloaded.

As you were left with 8hrs39 mins driving time left after the 8hr break it must mean you did 2hr21 driving to get from Scranton to NYC, the rest must’ve been on duty.