No. No they don't. Left that crap 2 jobs ago, and will only e-log on my own terms with a system that I have 100% control over.
Speaking of which, anyone have a dead Qualcomm or Peoplenet laying around? I want a nonfunctional one to dismember, possibly salvage parts from, and repurpose into a display for my own system
EOBRs (Qualcomms) required in ALL Trucks by Jan 1st 2014?
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by CryloZeus, Jan 5, 2013.
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Well i was going to tag all the post I wanted to comment to but thats to many tags....so first qualcomm is overload. they admit it Dot admitts the the qualcomm elog had problems droping your log times they all know it. the qualcomm sends out data packs every 20 seconds. in that pack it contains your log info and truck info like speed fuel braking info. not take that times 500,000 at a time. the systems in place cant hold it much less more. want to see what i am talking about. got out spokane washington during the evening and try and my a phone call on your cell. you drop calls left and right because all the cell qualcomms trying to call out the data packs. elog in itself sucks sure if i pull into a truckstop to get fuel and get stuck for an hour i dont have to log it on duty, yea you can switch to off duty and save your 70. but your burning your 14. on paper i show my 15 minutes fuel and rolling again. I plan my day and i plan out stops. I hit my stops. sure techincaly to get to the end point that can be legal logged in 11 hrs it took me 12 because i hold up and delays. think i am going to kill my pay check because some jb hunt driver is pulled up i got my fuel and got a truck behind me and cant get out and he is inside spending all his money on bs crap and wont get a parking spot. no i am not. i will hit my marks and i will admit i have made the west coast turn arounds. whats making tired trucks is the HOS. give me back the 5 and 5 option. and leave my paper alone
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I am a grown man that graduated high school and moved out of my parents home long time ago so I don't need someone babysitting me. I am over 18 years old and served this country in war so why should the government babysit my ###? I deserve my freedom to use the math skills that I learned in school.
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If you feel a law should be changed, you vote to change it, you don't punch the cop that arrest you for violating it. Why is everyone putting the blame on the EOBR (the Cop). They should be putting effort to changing HOS (the law). In the mean time, either fight to change HOS or quit complaining about EOBR's. I'm not crazy about HOS, but it does keep the companies from trying to work us to death and I can make good money following the rules. I dont hate it enough to fight against HOS, but for those of you that do, fight HOS not EOBR.mje Thanks this. -
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What kills worse than anything is the 14 hr clock. In the old days, if you started at 5 am, drove a half hour to a pickup and they took 7 hours to load you. Oh well. You got a nice 7 hr nap.and then could drive the rest of your 9 and a half hours. As long as you didnt have 15 hrs total of on duty time, you were ok. Plus you could split log. Today thanks to the 14 hr clock, you can only run another 6 and a half hours before having to stop at 7pm. As for split logging, it only helps if they keep you for 2 hours or 8 hours. Anything in between merely eats away at your 14.
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[/QUOTE]want to see what i am talking about. got out spokane washington during the evening and try and my a phone call on your cell. you drop calls left and right because all the cell qualcomms trying to call out the data packs.[/QUOTE]
i don't go that far west or north so i can't really comment other then to say that network congestion doesn't drop calls, it prevents them all together, a drop'd call is from an all together garbage arse network to begin with. Nextel back in 2004 was a big hitter with their push to talk, but their cell network was such a "POS", you could have all five bars and still drop a call, then they merged with Sprint and bam! they're now a contender.
and for the user that said it's just enforcing a law and we should fight the machine, but fight the law instead. there would be no reason to fight the law if there were no machine. could you imagine if there was a machine that reported you for having sex in any position other then missionary, or for beating your wife anywhere, on any day except for on Sunday on the town hall steps? there are plenty of laws that people aren't fighting that shouldn't exists, mainly because there's no machine reporting us.mje Thanks this.
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