Grief from company for average speed?

If you're on Elogs, there's nothing the company can complain about.

 

That's 65.40 mph.

It's legal. Close to the line but legal.

Now if GPS can be cross referenced with existing construction zones that drop the speed limit below 65.40 then you are not legal.


I can proceed to type stories which you probably read already in the past. So I wont do that today. Ive done enough typing this morning.

I have been with companies whose computers in the truck, if they detected 70 mph downhill in Fancy Gap on I-77 it would have been a instant firing no ifs buts or maybes.

I had been pulled into safety for a talking to at over 60 many times. (Company speed policy was 55 in those days, anything over 60 requires a review at safety. 70 was the big firing)

 

You only averaged about 63 mph, you should be fine. With the higher speed limits these days, that's easy. I was using JJ Kellers elog for awhile and the admin had left something in about "going over 55mph"
I kept getting notifications for speeding until I told admin to remove that 55 limit which was very easy to exceed with a 65 mph speed limit.
I remember working for a company that would only let us average 49 mph...of course, back then the National Speed Limit was 55

 

I used to deal with that kind of crap from my previous company. Current company really doesn't care as long as you are running legal. I did hate that type micromanaging.

 

One Penndot officer already failed me against a 70 HOS on paper log inspection, which included pulling out the atlas in his car and counting the recorded miles between towns. (And to see if I was speeding via average logged hours between them)

But despite knowing what he learned he let me go to Sayre to finish the delivery. When I got there on paper I had been over 70 HOS for about a hour a 15 minutes. Unless I logged that inspection time as only 15 minutes which I did.

I still turned in legal logs that week.

The final straw was I had 8 days off at home. What do I do? Help dispatch with a memphis delivery right quick. Then end up running 7 days under dispatch that week. These favors were not logged at all. As far as the logbook was concerned I had been off duty 8 days, presumably at home.

A further complication was Home was supposed to be maryland. But it was actually taken here in Arkansas on paper with my future wife. But again if I had been caught trucking that week, I would have claimed... aww shucks no logs, see this coffee spilled mess? (Pages stuck together, coffee grounds on them and a bit of splashed food etc that fell from the dash...)

Never again would I do those kinds of favors for dispatch off the books. When I am home off, I am absolutely home off. No phone no nothing.

Having to lie to both the law and to the company about home time entirely when out working for another thousand or so dollars that week... that was the last straw.

 

my math comes up with 62.74 mph

 

Actually, that is incorrect. Almost all carriers set a maximum avg log speed limit. Most of the ones I drove for set that at around 60. Mind you this is not for enforcement purposes. It is just something a carrier does. I have got those letters before.

 

I had accumulated a small collection of 20 letters with one employer long ago.

When I was fired from that outfit. My last act upon leaving was to take a big tack and stick those 20 letters (With the home address etc removed by tearing out) onto the drivers room board for the newbies waiting for orientation that week to read what their future contains.

The company called me at home two days into my unemployed future. Boy did they scream and rage. They did not appreciate that at all.