Elogs..The good,The bad and the ugly truth

I dont think we get enough hos either...we should be able to drive 13 and have 24 hours to do so with a 8 hour break...oh with no mandatory 30 min break after 8 hours on duty

 

At the very least, go back to the original HOS. That worked fine for 7 decades. It was the most flexible for all facets of this business. It was simple for even the worst IQ person to figure out. Even with an Elog, most people would not have any issues with getting the work done with the original HOS. Sure, there will always be some particular situation that will have a tough time with any HOS regs, and no matter what HOS is in place, there will always be someone who feels the need to skirt around the regs.

Of course, if there were no HOS regs at all, then no one could complain! But the lawyers would sure be happy!

 

We need some rules as in HOS....My grandfather drove for Shell Oil back in the 30's....The drivers worked 18 hours a day....6 days a week....
Not many people could handle half of that today...

 

I agree with the original HOS. Elogs are not the problem for me it's HOS. I'll be straight honest with anyone that asks me, YES, if I'm within an hour or two of the house IM GOING HOME. You would do the same so don't point the finger at me. I have a family member that runs elogs and I've seen him shut down at the Haubstadt, IN cluster of truck stops and he's not 45 min from the yard he works for and ran out of hours.

 

Been there done that only I am 1 1/2 from there it sucks but heck elog down now so an hour from the house and went home

 

Well, I use some alternative methods in this regard. I have several locations (north, south, east, and west) that I can drop a trailer if out of hours and within an hour of the house. Then just switch to off duty driving and head home bobtail. At the very least, I would know that I will be running out at a particular point, and give the wife a call and have her come and pick me up and leave the truck in a relatively safe location like a truck dealership or something. Then, of course, take her out to dinner for her trouble!

I know that everyone here can think of creative ways to make it all work. It is just that this stuff looks so bad coming at us like a freight train and we have the deer in the headlights feeling. But what makes Americans great is that they can find ways to overcome problems when they want to. Some will choose to "whither on the vine" as it were, but those folks have their own issues to deal with and it has nothing to do with regulations.

No one likes this stuff, but hey, no one liked it when we got sucked into WWII, and there was no one to go crying foul to. We were on our own. We either made it or we didn't. This regulatory stuff is not nearly in the same league as that, but there are similarities, in that, folks will either survive thru this stuff or they won't. Depends on how much they are willing to do to keep their business alive. And you have to go at it like there is not going to be any help coming. You are on your own. Then that is when people get motivated or give up. There won't be any fence to straddle.

 

I agree with you every step of the way cowpie, creativity gets me home every time. As far as WWII, yes we were on our own, but we thought outside the box in the pacific theater, like in the Atomic bomb, I wonder if us drivers have something like that at our disposal?