My Peoplenet experience today.

Yesterday I dropped a loaded set at Vancouver. Logged out then into the other truck which was my ride home(we slip-seat often, and yes it sucks). Anyway, I get all squared away and take off. After a few moments the PNet chirps and suddenly it shows I have 1 hour and 39 minutes to go before I run out of my 70 hours. I said "What the...?" Tried calling my dispatcher to ask him what gives. Never called back. Ended up logging out a half-mile from my yard, with 1 minute to go. I started out that day with 32 hours left of my 70. Worked 11 3/4 hours yesterday. Crazy PNet.

 

Similar thing happened to me. I logged out ON-DUTY then drove our shop truck home. Got back to our yard, logged back in so I could log back out OFF-DUTY. Forgot to log back out OFF-DUTY. Showed back up the next day, logged in saw zero hours available to me. Took my dispatcher until the following day to correct my mistake. Then he screwed it all up. Probably explains what happened later.

 

When CMV LE begins getting the technology in the field to download these units in the field, they are going to have a field day with all of the erroneous and flagged violations that will literally hilite themselves for them to see. Maybe they were true violations, maybe they were software screw-ups, maybe they were main-office screw ups, maybe they were driver screw-ups but do you think they are going to care when there is revenue and met quotas staring them in the face?

 

Probably not.

 

Just hand over your wallet and BEND OVER, DRIVER!


This is going to HURT ALOT!!!

 

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And since the point of e-logs was that they could never be "fibbed" and will "always be correct", good luck in court if you ever do get dinged with e-logs.

 

Don't like reading these problems with P_net We use Peoplenet, no elog yet, however getting real close to that. Boss sent a message the other day stating he's checking into getting the new screens for the elogs. His mind set is that just having the stupid elog sticker on the side of the truck is going to keep DOT from even looking. You know like garlic is to vampires. I'm worried that he's not going to listen to the system having these sort of glitches.

 

Some DOT inspectors target trucks with the stickers on the doors. If a driver doesn't have the required instructions for LEO's he's out of service.
Note all the onboard recording device violations here. http://ai.fmcsa.dot.gov/SMS/Data/BASICs.aspx?enc=pm9iYhlA51///nHxb1sU8g==