Call to Action - Support The ELD Extension Act of 2017

What makes a better job? It's usually a trade off. I drive local. You can't just create the perfect job out of thin air. When I work I make really good money. I have a lot of time off at home to do other interests. I'm on call all the time but I'm always free to say no.

 

We can argue all day long about Elogs the problem isn't Elogs it the HOS

 

That's part of the point I've tried to make. This is a thread about elogs. Elogs don't stop people from driving when they should not. As a driver you need to know when to say stop. when to stop is not the same for everyone.
Today it's pouring rain. I've got a run that will take me close to 10 hours. I just got up from a nap and I'm eating dinner. I stopped to sleep a bit cause traffic was doing 45 in a 70 because of rain and I was feeling sleepy. I could have pushed on. I glad I don't have some tattletale telling to move on.

 

If a driver stops to rest or eat or for rush hour traffic and they follow the HOS. The ELD is showing drivers just need more time to do the run. That's what drivers and shippers and receivers don't want to see. They seem to think we are on call 24/7. Now if someone is use to the old HOS they would say that's how trucking is or they would just get up and keep running because that used to be ok.

I don't see why people won't just accepted the fact that they need more time to do the run under the current HOS. Drivers can also choose to drive thru the rain and not stop. They also need have reasonable drive time. Maybe the shipper and receivers and trucking company are not giving that.

The ELD will show that because drivers won't be able to make that time up like you can on paper logs or like they use to tell me. We don't care get the load delivered on time or your fired

 

@Keiler05 I'm sill waiting for the explanation for what I don't get.

 

What's the point. We can't do anything about it. Let's move on.

 

Elogs are NOT a one size fits all regulation. We port drivers who haul interstate are definitely at a disadvantage for a number of reasons:
1. We have to arrive at the port hours before they open in order to get in line to do our missions.
2. It can take as many as 5 hours to get inside and do our mission. Those hours count toward our 14
3. We are stop and go for hours........eating into our 11 drive time.
4.Without a 15-25 mph and 2 mile exception we won't be able to get anything done.
Yesterday my 14 hours ran out inside the port. Would they have let me spend the night there? Nope. And "planning" is not the answer because we don't know what the longshoremen's temperament is for that day. They might want to work and they might not.
I know when I need to rest. I have a family to come home to and I will do nothing to jeopardize that. So they either need to make the elog mandate more compatible for my line of work or me and thousands more O/O's will have to find another use for rigs.
Oh, and I bought a new truck last year because the government says we have to be a "Clean Truck" in order to go into the ports by the end of the year, even though the hostlers, cranes and ships belch out smoke and aren't required to be replaced by "Clean Equipment" by the folks in Washington. Sound fair? NOT!!

 

That's what I thought, you cant

 

I used to work the ports in Oakland/ San Francisco. I would get to the yard at about 0630 to start my day and I was back in my car and on my way home usually around 1700/ 1800
Working Oakland.SF, Hayward , Fremont, San Jose, ect.ect.

 

Lol