ELD Mandate....Any O/O's left the business because of it?

If an inframe is the difference between doing fine and not doing fine then you went ever doing fine. Setting money aside for rebuilding and replacing equipment must be factored into your costs.

 

I completely agree.
I,would adjust a log book to make it home being a half hour away,or
Make it to a truck stop or rest area on the road to take a 10 hour break in a safe location than on the side of the road.
They make it sound like anyone running paper was jacked up on speed running around the clock grabbing as many loads as they
Can endangering the public and suppressing rates.
I've seen guys like that,more so years ago,but they were more a
very small ,tiny fraction of drivers out there that didn't last long for many reasons . I'm sure they're still some around in pre 2000 trucks running paper logs. But texting,cell phones and four wheelers driving around
Jacked up on booze or prescription drugs pose a far more danger than
The "outlaw truckers" running over hours on paper logs.

 

Whether it's paper logs or whether it's elogs, you're being watched. Look at all of these newly built scale houses that have the cameras to take a picture of your license plate. DOT knows everything carrier's credentials. If you're running paper, and you cross the scale house at the wrong time, they know if you've been cheating. Regardless of how we log our time, trucking is what you make of it.

 

He said inframe the truck "again" . Two inframes today is around $50k (about $25k each if done at a dealer)depending on how long it was between blown engines that will definitely mean the difference between doing fine and not . Not too many people put that much away for rainy days ,and if you do it still makes you go from fine,to not feeling fine.

 

At that price I think I'd consider purchasing a different truck....

 

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I wonder if this was a Mega truck and on elogs?
I see no name trucks involved in wrecks almost everyday too.

 

Your right.i think they call it smart view 360 where those overhead cameras scan your license and it goes into a data base that they can match against your log book.ELD or not. Big brother has his hairy eyeball on you.
It's another reason to diversify your income if they ever make it too miserable to be in trucking it's nice to have something to replace it.

I don't know how we ever survived without this government protection.
The same politicians getting caught daily for corruption,sexual harassment,
Lieing constantly and living on prescription drugs and booze.
(Except Trump he doesn't drink ,The other stuff. ... Well.....lol!)

 

As far as no name trucks causing wrecks . I see them all the time too,usually a beat up truck pulling a container driven by a "foreign guest" wearing sandals or a running suit using his driving skills he honed in his home country.
For every 1 stupid move you can find like that from an independent
Or small company ,I'll show you a 100 just as stupid or more by
Swift,Prime,JBHunt, Fed ex drivers fill in the blanks. I don't pick on any
drivers for working for a particular company ,I m totally against that. We're all out here doing the same thing,trying to feed our families and make a better life for them and ourselves. I fault those companies for hiring anybody,many poorly trained and lacking the skills to be out here
and setting them loose in big trucks with 53' trailers and causing many of the wrecks out here ,and then lobbying Washington heavily to jam Elogs
On the whole industry because they need them to monitor their thousands of trucks,filled by the driver mills they run to put ###es in seats.

 

You have a fair gripe. You've got a proven history of your compliant operating safely and with in hos compliance. But the same can be said for thousands of businesses in every industry. Its no different than a plumber or electrician having to pay the costs and time of having the local building inspector inspect their work before going to the next step in the building project.

 

That is an extremely naive view. Yes the ata voluntarily went to elogs, but it was in response to the feds about to hammer the trucking industry. It was a last ditch effort to police themselves before the feds started policing them.

Congress has been under extreme political pressure to reign in the trucking industry since the freaking 60s. It culminated in the mid 90s when the highway safety advocates got organised and suddenly had tens of millions of soccer moms behind them. That's voting power. Legislatures care about votes more than anything else and they knew if they didn't take these groups serious they would not be in office any longer.