Did anybody get inspected for ELD yet?

The driver was very negligent and the inspector made him pay, unfortunately. Those are all very basic & fundamental violations.

 

Many of those are form and manner. Probably the result of the transition and lack of familiarity with handling the device, which could mean that driver would have not gotten all the violations had he stayed on paper logs. Although, per FMCSA recommendation until April these should not affect the safety score. Looks awful but may not be a big deal at this stage yet.

 

Actually, they might count against him...same as "form and manner" violations always have. Wouldn't that be some kind of crap if he would've been better off just handing over a paper log and accepting the write-up for not having an ELD? Would've avoided every one of those violations if he had...

 

It is definitely his lack of ELD training rather than not knowing that every log book page needs to be signed and shipping docs need to be included there too. I could have done some of those myself but Keep Trucking gives me exclamation points in red indicating violation or that there is something missing.. It is just transition to E Logs, they should not really penalize this yet. IMO

 

Does anyone know if a driver's DAC report will eventually show all violations like that?

 

When you see the company's SMS report at Safety Measurement System - Complete SMS Profile (U.S. DOT# 2329182) you'll see this wasn't the first time his company was already nailed for ELD violations in the short time they've been mandated. That company seems to have a fairly large number of violations in general for the relatively small number of trucks they reportedly have... so perhaps the DOT is "watching" them closely?

 

Being that it was Arkansas and the truck was from California, I’d suspect they probably wanted to write him up for driving with a turban. But that wasn’t legal, so they took the next best option.

 

Yeah,But Still.....Barely in the transition period, Gotta be something else too, That's a Ton of Violations saturated on 1 single inspection.

You talk about No Mercy..........That's Brutal.

Hopefully Like Tall Joey says, It wont count against anything.

 

At the moment the enforcement people are just as unhappy with ELD's as the drivers. They were sold a bill of goods by the FMCSA about how their job was going to get easier and the opposite has occurred. I am betting in this case the officer was frustrated trying to decipher the computer gibberish most of these systems put out-there are over 200 different ELD's out there when there used to be like 4. The average cop is no more computer literate than the average driver.
Like it or not this is how he tells his boss this is unacceptable, and we, the drivers are caught in the crossfire.

 

I think the idea, eventually, is for the logs to be in a specified .pdf or .csv or other file type where a computer analyzes the logs for violations. And have some code in it to show a violation if a given average speed threshold is achieved. Making the officers job more focusing on the truck itself for equipment violations.