Driving with Qualcomm unplugged

You should probably just get a job at McDonald’s before you kill someone.

 

Don’t know who or how big your company is. But mine cleaned house a few years ago. They caught one, then audited a bunch. Saw the irregularities real quick.

With the cost of being caught during an audit. They won’t let it slide very often. If at all.

 

Well .... really?

The regs say if it is defective, YOU GO TO PAPER.

It is malfunctioning in any way YOU GO TO PAPER.

If it shows a violation by being unplugged and there are numbers off, and you haven't notified your company and gone to paper, you get a ticket for falsified log entries.

YOUR company needs to provide you with training on paper and fix it.

 

I don't think you can just unplug what is in essence just a keyboard and kill the system. Trust me, the internals of the QC is NOT in that keyboard. To do what you are asking about would be to actually remove the power from the unit. I once was parked under a powerline that blocked my QC for almost 12 hours. That next morning I got a call from my company asking me if I had done something to my system.

When a carrier gets audited by the FMCSA they ask for the driver qualification files, The carriers accident register and from this access to the logs. If a carrier has problems with those HOS rules the FMCSA can, in theory, shut them down. I highly suggest you follow the HOS rules and leave that QC device alone!

 

If you're "going home" why can't you request a Personal Conveyance exception?

I know the answer to the question, because this is not the scenario you're wondering about, but I'm just humoring your query.

Good luck with that methodology. At some point it's going to be more of a headache to correct the flagrant fraud of the system then it was ever worth. And when you're done, there may or may not be a job for you to return to.

 

You're missing out

 

There's no getting around the ELD. I once had to unplug the wiring connector from the (defective) speed sensor on the back of the transmission, and my Qualcomm still recorded my miles driven and speed using GPS and cell towers - and yes, it threw all kinds of vehicle overspeed and log violations at me, too.

 

OP specializes in popcorn threads.

 

My truck was towed last night (Omnitracs system) and it never went into drive mode. Stayed right where I left it, Off Duty

 

I think it’s a good idea.