ELD effects on bed buggers

The only difference is driving time is automatically recorded. Every other input is up to the driver, so if you illegally logged sleeper or off duty to "save hours" when you should have been on line 4, you'll probably continue to do just that for the exact same reason. ELD's aren't going to do a darn thing to enforce anything other than the 14th hour after the truck's first movement and 11 hours of driving. The rest is only going to be as accurate as the person making the inputs...same as paper.

A lot of expense very little progress in compliance enforcement. Only thing they do is pressure drivers to race that clock because the 14 doesn't stop and the 11 is ticking away...so hammer down! Road construction? School zone? Can't be bothered by all that, 'cuz I gots to GO! Traffic backup? I'll hit it full speed ahead, because I just don't have time to stop. Seems to be the trend, anyway...closer the enforcement date gets and the more companies that adopt elogs, the more frequent these idiotic wrecks seem to be occurring. But hey, it was all in the name of safety, right? Unintended consequences are overlooked for the sake of the good intentions behind the policy.

 

No I have seen an increase in both settlements to the drivers and my bottom line with logs. No longer are with using 15 minute chunks of time now everything is minute by minute which means more time can be spent working.

 

You will likely rearrange work assignments by prioritizing your drivers who are subject to ELD requirements. A little strategy will go a long way to minimize the impact.
Example, you may have one driver sign onto the vehicle to move it to the residence and pack the shipment, therefore blowing up the 14 hours, and then let the driver who was intended to take it to destination report later and sign on when the unit comes back to the agency.
In the past it might have been one driver doing it all and fraudulently logging the events. You will figure it out.

 

I worked for northAmerican Vanlines for 25 years, and currently haul trailers for Unigroup and am intimately familiar with how that end of business works.
Business as usual will change. The old days of the van operator dropping by the agency, picking up some labor, or meeting a packing van at the residence, loading and then proceeding to destination is nearly extinct now. The flagrant log violations that have been the norm in HHG are one of the reasons for ELD's. Your operations people will figure out alternatives, as will your HHG competitors. How well your people do it will determine whether you stay in business and you force your buddy under down the street. Same for delays at TL carriers. Good luck.

 

The seller is not being truthful with you at all. The ELD and it's effects are the biggest change in this industry since CDL's(1992) and deregulation itself(1982).
The entire HHG section of the business is a shell of it's former self when I started in 1976. Do it yourself, freight companies involved, PODS, and other factors have gutted the full service moving business. Proceed with caution.