Why CSA 2010 and E-Logs are a good thing.

And boom goes the dynamite.. Meltom said it best.. If you want to preach the point of E-logs and EOBRS then a study needs to be done to prove they are safer than paper...

 

I think in my opinion RAT was stating that the woman just didn't know the law that allows a driver to drive home off duty un-laden.

 

If a safety man never drove a truck means that he or she isn't qualified to work in the safety dept, does that mean an aircraft engineer that has never flown, can't design an airplane?

 

Only if we're talking full across the board every truck in america is required to have them. Otherwise it's a waste of money. I like the bad actors rule, I wish that one would have stuck. If you can't manage to control your violations as a company you get eLogs. That make sense to me.

 

I've never stated they were safer or not. I have stated that they enforce the rules better and they will cut down on cheating scumbags that make us be put further under the microscope.

 

I was going to go with an EKG tech doesn't has to have had a heart attack to read the EKG.

 

Say there are 3 million trucks on the road then lets take 1.5 million and put on E-logs and 1.5 million on paper and do the study. I would bet the guys running paper would have far less tickets, accidents and be alot safer while running. But the argument every E-log guy wants to state is that paper guys run tired/fatigued so well lets hook up the drivers running the 2 different logs and I bet the E-log driver would be more fatigued and therefore unsafer and E-logs have no point in the industry.

 

So in other words you are 100% okay with people that have never driven a truck down the road in the real world to make these rules. There is no study that is better than 1st hand knowledge. Get in the truck and see what its about.

 

I bet half the lot lizards are actually studying for the bar exam, too.

 

Sounds like a plan, let's get this study on. Random sample paper vs eLogs, I'll let you know right now it'll go the other way. Most companies that still ran paper will take advantage of that fact. I see those guys come through orientation every week, jump for the $$ and are stunned that we actually expect them to run legal. By moving those guys out, and identifying those behaviors we've dropped our unsafe basic 54%.