Do you feel elogs should be mandatory or optional?

Ok lets talk about a high horse!!! Are we in agreement that illegal is illegal no matter what you run whether E-logs or paper? Yes okay then their are 9 out of 10 guys on here preaching they love E-logs and how you get caught so easily if you go "over" your hours while running them. Yet these same drivers have stated that they park outside or down the road from a reciever and go on their 10hr sleeper break and in the morning they just put the truck into gear and slowly go across the street and back up to a dock and since they never got over a certain speed or travel far enough distance then they just go back into the sleeper and the darn computer never shows they interrupted their break and THERE FOR JUST BROKE THE HOS REGULATIONS........... Oh wait we were just in agreement that ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL. Oh I know now there is a difference because as long as YOU run E-LOGS ILLEGAL is okay but for the paper guys ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL know matter what. Now I gotcha...

 

You didn't get nobody. I run the same way on paper as I do on E logs. I wasn't parked at the shipper on paper and then putting the 3 mins it took for me to go to the dock door. You cover your butt. You are the one who has to pay the ticket. So do what you do.

Now on paper the same fine you would get for going 10 mins over is the same fine u will get for going 10 hours over so if you are going to run illegal then do it and do it big was my motto.

 

Elogs are ridiculous, all of you guys preaching that everyone should have them crack me up...you keep letting a little voice on a computer tell you what to do but im free thinking and smart enough to figure it out myself. I would bet that since e-logs (a tool for the lazy and incompetent for the most part) have come around there are more accidents happening on the highways.

I'm also so tired of hearing drivers preach how great elogs are, because they used to run so illegal, guess it's y'all bunch of dummies that we have to thank for so much regulation?

 

The HOS regulations have always been around. I just think when the government seen how badly people were abusing it. That's when they stepped in. There are all kinds of ways around elog as well. So If all went to E logs you bet there will be some way to bypass the system. Just as we did with the paper. We are the captain of our trucks, and it you want to take the responsibility to violate the law. Then more power to you. I'm just blessed I don't have to drive 4 and 5,000 miles ever week. I'm fine with 2500. I been there done that. Made it through without killing anybody only by the grace of God, and I'm no longer willing to abuse it. So as a driver you learn to adapt to situations rather it be. Wind, hail, snow, ice, tornadoes, hurricanes or earthquake. In all these things a super trucker will survive!! A super trucker will Survive!!

 

E-logs have nothing to do with the government for the moment. That was just another money making scheme like the qualcomm . . . The government hasn't stepped in yet when it comes to e-logs.

 

Not sure where you get your facts from, but the government has forced many companies to do e logs or shut down.

 

link to "many companies" ??

That will be the link to "many companies" I won't ever work for..

 

So you are telling me Landline lists companies big brother forced on elogs ??

 

I had forgotten about that . . . then again, most of the time I have heard about something like that being done, it was the EOBR's being forced on the companies if they want to keep running . . . if the companies aren't going to enforce the rules the way they should, and they are given the choice of using e-logs or closing down, then they have the option . . . as a driver, I wouldn't be staying with them if they got hit with that. I never screwed up on my logs when I was out there, so I wouldn't stay with a company that couldn't get their drivers to do their logs properly. The companies have could keep from having to deal with that by making sure their drivers are logging things properly . . . it's not that dang hard.