At some point in the future a computer somewhere will take a major league dump and 1000's of the company steering wheel holders will be stranded not knowing which way to turn or what to do next.......
EOBR Electronic Logs - Good or Bad
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by SLCTrucker, Apr 13, 2010.
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I'm going to tell you right now that folks who do not understand HOS regulations are going to be behind the eightball from the git go. It has nothing to do with having a nanny look over your shoulder, or trust.Bumpy Thanks this. -
All the planning in the world will not keep you from having to shutdown within 30 minutes of yard or house. three weeks ago 1.5 hours from yard, had to get 10 hrs in plus 15 min. pretrip, so 1.5 hrs turned into 11hrs 45 minutes to go home.
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On my paper logs, I always showed 15 min for PTI and always flagged my pretrips and wrote 4, 5 or 6 min... -
This week was my first one running hard with this thing. I am still running paper along with elogs until my company tells me to change. I ran out my 70 in 7 days last week. I pulled on the yard with 40 minutes remaining on my elog clock for my 70.
My paper logs were in violation of the 70 hour rule. The difference was fuel stops shorter than 15 minutes and logging short bathroom breaks at terminals and customers (less than 8 minutes off duty). I did my paper logs based on the time stamp on my elogs. The rounding actually gave me more time and without elogs I would not have legally gotten home without a reset last week.
You do have to be proactive with it. Get off of line 3 and 4 every chance you get even if its for only 1 minute. Thats one of the few advantages of the system. You get credit for off duty entries that would be flagged on paper logs if you were anal enough to do it.Last edited by a moderator: Dec 18, 2011
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When you stop... manually change your status from line 3 to line 1 or 2 immediately. If you have a moment to do this after you stop at the top of an exit ramp - not too far from where you're going, then do it there. Then, allow the sytem to take its time changing you back to line 3 when you depart. Another savings...
Hint: When you're running close to the end of your 11 or 14 hour clocks, and you have to be somewhere by a certain time... take your GPS distance to go, and divide it by what's left on your DOT clock... that'll let you know if you can run fast enough to get to where you need to be. Its easier to speed-up early on, than to need to go warp 9 with not much time left... -
Thats because it is showing you that what you thought was legal isnt. It is a interesting world when something actually keeps strack of our times and allows us not to worry so much of missed lines.
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You need to slow down. The e-logs (especially qualcomm's version) don't put you line 3 until you get over about 18-20 mph. I found that if I stay in 4th (on an 8 speed) and chug around at 1100-1300 rpm (12-15mph), I can go over a mile before the logs shift me back to driving. I actually discovered this at a Wal-Mart DC while looking for a lost trailer.
You're getting bumped back to driving because, between the gate and your door, you're grabbing all kinds of gears and going 25-30 mph because you're not thinking like the machine. You're super hot and bothered because you think you have to hurry to save time. Take it easy in parking lots and at customers and you can do all of your docking and parking, etc. on duty or off duty.
The system is designed to allow you to move around for the sake of parking, redocking, and all the other low-speed stuff. Just do it at low speed.Last edited by a moderator: Dec 18, 2011
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