Unintended Conseqences?

Discussion in 'ELD Forum | Questions, Answers and Reviews' started by Timin770, Feb 2, 2018.

  1. Timin770

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    Guys buying older ELD-exempt rigs with presumably fewer safety features and/or increasing speed to make their runs?
     
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    Yes, and Yes. And Yes to driving in a more "hurried" state, in truck stops and elsewhere. But most [who are capable] will tell you 80 mph is just as safe as 70 mph

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    Why would they run faster? They don't have to run faster. With my ELD installed I run much faster on my last hour. Is that a safety feature?
     
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    I run now faster then before when I was on paper. one day in last week I had driven legally 758 miles on I-40.
     
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    I certainly can't top your 758 but I did the 700 between Chicago and Atlanta legally last Saturday night, and it rained on me at least half of the trip. I am exempt from ELD but I had my hot wife waiting for me lol
     
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    Here is one of the ways that is being thwarted. Our company switched to a different paper log scanning system to coincide with the Dec 2017 ELD mandate. It will capture the same data the same way and in the same format that the ELD does. Soooo, in any electronic audit, which can be done from anywhere, the statistics of trucks on paper will differ than the trucks on ELD's, high average speeds, more miles per day, less time on duty etc...
    it will be obvious if the paper guys try to stretch things too far. The scanning system is not required, but any carrier with say more than 100 trucks( ours has 200+) will have to answer to the FMCSA when they discover the differences.
     
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    Stop thinking miles = money. Just stop.

    You need to be thinking less miles and more money.
     
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    That's a good way of thinking! Increase your Rate x Mile and that's it.
    How do you suggest we do that?
     
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    Learn how to negotiate.
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    Safety features like computers that will limit you to 5 miles an hour?
    Safety features like lane departure because a driver needs help to know if they're in their lane?
    Safety features like collision avoidance that provide a false sense of security?

    Or do you simply mean the safety feature that tells a driver when they are OK to drive because they've had a certain amount of time off duty or tells a driver they aren't OK to drive because of the opposite?
     
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