Rebel eld

Been on them for a year. Honestly, it’s not a big deal. Otr planning is a little harder, but it’s not onerous.

 

Quicker in and out at pickups and drops.. in the event you are held up, no more "just make it happen".. at inspection zero nervousness if they'll buy whatever bs I wrote down..

All that being said, I can't really say I like them or hate them. Really, there's only few times I get hung by it. There's good and bad. Don't really think they're necessary, but as truck drivers our opinions don't matter. Just so long as we don't drive 36 hours straight like we used to. Now we just run our day, can't sleep so watch the clock, then run the next day on zero sleep but the box says you're legal so that's more better, I guess.

On overnight runs it just switched from, they'll load us at 7pm and deliver next morning to east coast to, load us at 8am instead. So I put a few more hours on my reefer and I have to find a place to sleep at night.

 

Every scenario you came up with is in your head. Particularly the racing the clock. I know one guy that just started using one and thought he was racing the clock. On his first trip with it soon as it said he could drive he was going because he was so afraid he was losing time with this thing. He over slept by about a half hour one morning and thought his whole trip was in jeopardy cause he wasn't going after eight hours off. In the end he found out how much time he was f ing around before and admitted it was the earliest he had made it to the delivery area.

 

I have been on them for a few years now and once you get familiar with them its no big deal.All the fear mongering is just more BS. The HOS have not changed ,only the way they are recorded has changed .If your that worried about ELD's then you were obviously cheating on paper.

 

Ive been on them before, the company I am at now is just starting them, the drivers that have been on them before know its not a big deal. The guys tyat are goign to have a problem at my current company are the couple that stop all the time to "check the load" (really smoke breaks), and will find out they are going to run out of hours compared to those of us who keep the left door closed.