For Those Who Went From Paper Logs to Electronic

I said " if your with a company that gives you 2 days to go 500 miles you will love elogs." My company runs a tighter ship then that. And how are you gonna trip plan the shipper that holds you up? I was held up for 17 hours at Ralphs in riverside ,ca. Now lets see you trip plan that! And then you say drive to a t/s and take the log violation? No thanks. And whats this about making sure you have enough hrs to do the load before excepting it. Who said anything about not getting the load delivered on time? Would be a good idea to read a post carefully before comenting on it.

 

Im not crying and im not going to get in a pissing match.with anyone. You company guys run your elogs and enjoy life. Ill do it the way I learned and its good enough for me. I own this truck and trailer not some bottom feeder company that controls drivers like puppets.I run the way I run plain and simple no big deal. Technology is fine until its broke then its back to basics. Mandated government bullcrap will just put small operations and O/O out of business and leave the mega bottom feeder to fight amongst themselves under cutting freight rates and blocking up traffic with their 62 mph trucks trying to pass each other.

 

I agree. On a side note, I thought you retired?

 

That is why some companies have had to go to e-logs to keep them legal, which is bad.

 

Lucky me I haven't had the pleasure of using E-log's yet. I was taught how to run hot right out of school with my coloring paper and crayon's. I guess it's going to catch up to us all before to long though. I guess we paper boy's better enjoy it while we still have it.

 

Well I am not an expert on the logs, but once when my husband was driving for US Xpress a scale was coming up and he was leaving room for another truck to get into the righthand lane when a suv swooped up and took it, the truck did not have room to get over and missed getting off at the scale; needless to say a DOT car went after him. We came up to the place where he pulled over and told the officer what had occured which may have gotten him off, but he did not have his logs done for the day and that they did pull him in for. So the best thing I think in paper logs is you better have them pretty well accurate just in case. In the case of US X, they did have stapled booklets where you would notice if a page was missing if DOT wanted to count them.

 

make ourselves look good on paper.

NOW THAT'S FUNNY. considering that a highway patrolman can pull us over at any given time. that would look real good on paper when we're driving instead of being in the sleeper like we're supposed to be. 200 miles back OR i should be 200 miles ahead already.

but we're a small fleet. not enough trucks to worry about a box to keep track of us.

and us paper lovers running illegal. yes sir. my dspatcher is rearranging my logs at this very moment. and will be sending back to my box that i don't have. so that i have hours to run the next load.

no sirrrrrrrrrrr paper lover. i'm the box lover and i'm running legal while your not.

not true box lover. my logs aren't getting rearranged.

i run no more illegal then all you box lovers do. i['m also not hooked to a chain like all you box lovers are.

yep, let's hope the box gets mandated. cuz that will defenitly put the knife on a election that was supposed to promote job growth. and so far. all that election has done. is deter job growth with all the new rules that have taken place since then. like all the rookies that are quickly tarnished after 3 months.

that's the problem. verterans tired of the govt crap. and rookies taking over. rookies that can't master a truck, keep it in shape. fill out logs. or having accidents.

let's create more rules, retire the veterans. hire more rookies. and keep the rookie turnover rate as high as possible. becuase new govt regulations are ruining careers and putting smaller fleets out of business.

but yall don't care about the country as a whole. you only care about your own arse. and wish that everyone was tied to a chain. juust like uuuuuu. you want people to go out of business in hopes that rates will go up. becuase your tied to a box and can't drive your full potential of miles.


3000 miles in 5 1/2 days. wish i had it that easy.

 

Don't get hasty on this one; we were in the New Orleans area working and the taxicabs going into the airport were going to have to take credit and debit cards of people using their services or they were not going to be allowed into the airport. This is most likely what will happen when the e-logs will be required of everyone in the future.

 

installing debit or credit cards isn't the same as installing elogs on a engine that has no computer.

debit machines only require internet. and that fcan easily be had over the air waves.

 

Did you spend all 17 hours on line 4? I fail to see how you can run out of hours. 17 hours is plenty of time to squeeze a 10 hour break in. Also, paper or eobr, its all the same. A eobr is nothing more than a automated version of what you should be doing on paper.