I believe and correct me if you think I'm wrong. As it is now the truck stops fill up about 6pm. Every driver on the road has not had their clock run out at 5-6pm everyday. Once E-logs take effect I believe it will more than quadruple the amount of trucks on the road overnight when drivers are forced to follow the law with their hours. Also I think rates could go up as the old timers leave the industry.
E-logs will equal more parking
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Breaker-one-nine, Apr 23, 2016.
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Not gonna happen. There will be new drivers to take the place of the ones that leave. Most trips do not require you to drive your full eleven or only take a 10 hour break. If you are going 700 miles and you have a late appointment there is no need to rush, especially if you have a crane appointment.
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I believe it will be the other way, with drivers forced to park when their hours run out thereby less parking for more trucks trying to park.
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When I was OTR and on paper , I would go home if I was close. On elogs, I'da been taking up a parking spot in a truck stop 1/2 hr from home. If I ran into a snow storm and the consignee was on the other side of it, I'd get there and sleep rather than get stuck in a jammed up truck stop. On elogs, I'd be out of hours and contributing to the clusterfu..Peter Griffin, Dye Guardian, 12 ga and 3 others Thank this. -
True, E-logs do not ALLOW someone to make common sense decisions on their own,(like previously stated)
Thus, Making our Industry ANGRIER than it already is.....
Here's the Fix, Let us Drivers Do our Jobs without interference of any Kind...Lose all these drivers that don't "Really" know what they want to do with their lives...And Rely on 'others' for assistance in driving a truck.
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I think before they consider mandating elogs, they should take care of the shipper/receiver problems. If they dont, you will see more trucks parking in the day and more trucks running at night. You'll have to so you can stay by the elog. JMO
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The way shipping and receiving is now, youll be lucky if you get unloaded and reloaded the same day but if you do, you'll be out of hours and will have to take a break, meaning youll have to run the load at night. They need to buckle down on them- 2 hours max at any shipper/receiver. That will still take 4 hours of your 14 on the elog.
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