ELD rule drops this month, ATA exec says

thejackal · Nov 19, 2015

Cowpie1 said: ↑

When I got the ECM adjusted to dump the EPA '98 stuff out of it, got the settings in the ECM adjusted to allow this. Got it done at Davenport, IA by guy that goes by Diesel Doctor. Not sure if all ECM's can be done. Detroit really has a lot of parameters and settings that can be changed. Many of them even the techs at the dealerships are clueless about.
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Ive heard of him. My ecm is tweaked, too. But I have an isx.

cajun · Nov 19, 2015

Pedigreed Bulldog said: ↑

I left a carrier after 7 years because they told me I'd have to buy one of those fing things. I'll turn my rig into an RV and use it to pull the horses around and go change tires @ Walmart before I install a box in my truck. These ATA goons crack me up...if "speed" is such a big factor in crashes, and if elogs are the end-all-be-all of safety, then THEIR trucks (which are already speed limited and elog equipped) would NEVER be involved in any wrecks. They are, though, which only illustrates the amount of bull excrement flowing from these fools at the ATA. THEY made the business decision to limit speeds and run elogs, both of which placed THEIR companies at a competitive disadvantage. Rather than admitting their mistake and revising their business model accordingly, they want to force THEIR bad business decision onto the rest of the industry to "level the playing field". Hell, why not level the playing field by limiting the number of trucks a carrier may operate to 50 trucks? Sounds reasonable to me! If "safety" is your concern, why not push for TRAINING standards? Instead, the ATA wants to allow permit holders to operate without a licensed driver in the jump seat and lower the OTR age to 18. Sorry, once you start advocating those things you lose whatever credibility you THOUGHT you might have had on the safety issue while pushing for elogs and speed limiters.

The ATA is a joke, and ought to be laughed right off of K street. Unfortunately this administration (also a joke...a really BAD joke...but that's another topic for another thread in another password-protected area of the forums...) takes them seriously.
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I was thinking the other day that the ATA might as well get their own .GOV server and be done with it already.

Cowpie1 · Nov 20, 2015

That sounds about right!

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