What the ELD mandate has taught me so far

So, you're not willing to cheat by putting some of your on duty time to line 1. Because it helps your argument since you want to have a good argument against elogs.
However you have no problem with admitting that you currently violate hos every time, willingly. And you are upset with elogs because you won't be allowed to anymore...
If you're running out of hours on your way home, there's line 5 for that.

 

Nevermind I'm done wasting my time talking to a wall.

 

@Hulld

1- are you running out of 11 or 14 on your way home or just 70? (If so, yes you could cheat line 4 which is absolutely illegal but since you're currently cheating on paper shouldn't be a problem)

2- are you coming home loaded? If empty use line 5.

3- are you sure you're not just completely against elogs and looking for a good excuse "I have to run faster".... no you don't.

Sorry driver. Some of us use elogs all the time and manage to get home on time. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but ... it's pretty much fine.

 

So dont run 70. Run 64.

I don't know if elogs are safer than paper. Only time and statistics will show that. But i do know that this argument of i don't want any elog cause i currently violate hos but it looks legal on paper will never ever work to get the mandate repealed.

 

Dedicated route A to B. With Elogs you have to run 68 to be legal. On paper you can run 60 and be in violation. Dude isn't asking what the law is. I believe he is asking what is safer. So far no one has a answer. I like Elogs but not so much I let it cloud my judgement to where I can't comprehend the other side of the coin.

 

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Ok, so how do you not run out of your 70 right now?

 

In protest to all you guys, I am going to stay up for the next 60 hours log everything legal on my elog and drive like a bat out of hell. Personal responsibility my ###. My Qualcomm says I'm good to go.

 

Is the glass half full or half empty ? Drivers are looking for a reason to speed it sounds like. Your driving the the truck not the ELD. You can choose to run 60-64. You can run 55-60 if you want. You pay the price by less miles in a day but you probably get better MPG.

If you want to over book loads or not make adjustments to reflect your real driving time vs paper logs. That your choice. If you want to believe you HAVE to drive 70 that's you choice.

You have to be smart enough to realize you can drive less or book less loads. You can drive slower if you want to. You can also keep blaming someone else or the ELD and act like you have no control over your life or the truck and the ELD is forcing drivers to speed and drive unsafe.

If the OP can't see the writing on the wall that he have more work then he can do in 70 hours or he has to drive faster to keep the same work level because he was not logging it correctly on paper logs. Nobody can give him any answer to solve his problem. I would bet he not even looking for a real answer.