can anyone say anything good about CR England.

with looks like that your going to get alot of people offering to rub that bruise

 

The first 9 months with CRE I was paper logs and I was doing fine solo. The e-logs in my opinion just add stress to my work day. When I was on paper I always stopped when tired or I just knew my day was going bad and it was time to take a break.

The e-logs actually push me to drive the graveyard shift and that technology digressed me a little since I just depend on the computer to tell me what to do.

 

The thing a love about being a driver is that every time I make a delivery ontime I feel I sense of accomplishment. I know I might just have French fries or 42,000 lbs of Vodka but it feels good to get it where it needs to be.

I try explaining this to students but they don't understand that. Some students insist that they are allowed a 30 minute lunch off the truck during their drive shift. That's when I explain that we move around the freight, the freight doesn't move around us.

 

I can never understand these comments. If you're running legal, e-logs won't be any different from paper.

 

I can never understand how some never can understand comments like these about log book loggin'.
Kinda makes me wonder if they even want to understand, and, if so, are they even tryin' to understand, and how hard are they tryin'?

When asked why the HOS exist, I can never understand why so many who don't understand these comments, answer matter-of-factually, *SafetY*, and believe it.

 

What I was getting at is if you know the HOS regs and you run legal; then running paper or e-logs won't make a difference.

 

If the HOS and the speed of the truck are the same... how can e-logs make you run at night? Makes no sense - hours are hours, and the truck goes where it goes as fast as you make it go.. or as fast as it can.

 

I would do a lot of 8 hour sleeper restarts in western regional when I was at the shipper/receiver. Doing short hauls like that where it takes 3-4 hours to get loaded then I have to wait for 8 sleeper to finish and then start driving again. That would drag out my day and DM expected this from all the drivers. I couldn't just fall asleep in the middle of the day, if I could just back log a hour or two I wouldn't be out there driving fatigued even though the e-logs say I am nice and legal.

Now that I am back to OTR this isn't a problem anymore. About 90% of my loads are drop/hook which allows me to turn and burn. My DM asked me this afternoon if I had enough hours to drop my current load in so cal Friday and pickup a produce load Saturday morning. That load was going to North Carolina and would have kept me busy over the holiday weekend. Unfortunately I do not have the hours to do that reload.

 

Today I saw alot of what appeared to be CR company trucks. Its usually a day filled with lease ops. Are they taking on more company drivers than usual?

 

I seen that also. I have also seen a few CRE trucks equipped with APU's. It's about time CRE joined the rest of the industry. Maybe I'll get my hands on one of those bad boys when my lease expires. I was tempted to switch to Prime just to have a APU.

CRE though has had the same policy towards new company drivers. If you don't have any previous experience, CRE manditates that you either spend 2 months in Phase II or you complete a lease. I think what you're seeing is alot of IC's making a switch to join the company bandwagon.