Eld Vs Paper

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Reefer sadness: A long-haul driver's ELD lament

The email from Ralph Picardo surprised my inbox one recent weeknight around 8. The 54-year-old food-and-plant long-hauler with 30+ years behind the wheel had an axe to grind and time to grind it, as he was parked… and blocked in. "ELDs are causing a parking nightmare," he wrote. "If anybody thinks they have made the roads safer, they haven't really examined the full extent of it. I've never seen such confusion on the road in all my life."
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So he even admits to widespread illegal running on paper....
I mean how could it be worse when hos did not change unless hos wasn't being followed?

 

So he says this...

“Up to last year, when paper logs were still in use for primary records and not just backups, Picardo explained he would simply notate if he had to keep his truck moving a bit longer than he was supposed to, and that would be that. With ELDs, he said, there's no wiggle room.”

If he made a notation every time he went over his hours on paper and didn’t just redo his log then he would realize that you can also make a notation if you go over on your eld. It’s really no different than going over on paper like he said he did.

The thing I get tired of reading is the eld has no flexibility and that’s simply incorrect. The current hours of service have no flexibility. But as I said in an earlier post, everyone is so focused on how their hours are recorded (eld) that they don’t look at the big picture and see what is creating the issue (hours of service).

 

“I mastered the HOS and ELOGs”

Alex, what is something cupcakes can’t say?

 

I mastered it all too. I run until i need to (HOS) issue accomplished. ELD issue was solved via leaving them to the newbee drivers.

 

Alex, what's a good job for me since I got fired for being too stupid to clean toilets? Drive truck for swift, Werner, or any of the big companies who are the reason we have elogs.

 

You dont know how to play Jeopardy do you?

 

No I have better things to do than watch one of the dumbest tv shows known to man.

 

I resent that remark knowing that Keeping Up with the Kardashians exists along with Florida-Bama whatever.

 

Necessary? Hmmm.... I know of a guy that ran out of hours 2 hours from home, called his buddy and punched his buddys number in the ELOG, and kept right on driving. And it looked legal..... since the other guy owned the truck.

Your parading around like a ELOG poster child Tucker...., THEY ARE NOT PERFECT.

2019 makes 32 yrs ago I crawled in a 73 Cabover Kenworth as a O/O, in all these years I have yet to have a wreck, many close calls because of others ignorance but no wrecks.

The idiots making up the HOS regulations need slapped silly, just like the dummies in Washington. We need experienced people at the table at the FMCSA, but Lord let’s not allow that...

I find it funny, I run 90 a lot between Cleveland and Buffalo. You know what I see a lot of???? Late model trucks ( mostly Freightliner and Volvo ) running 10 mph over the limit in PA where it’s 55 mph. Then turn into road hazards at 70 mph in Ohio. You know the perfect ELOG trucks.

Oh and my 3 million + accident free miles.... has all been on paper. And my fuel receipts are always stuck on my binder rings with my logs. They can clearly see where and what time I was there.

Just because a person uses paper doesn’t make us outlaws or bad guys.

Be safe out there.