Landstar Satellite Tracking Drivers!!!!

I agree that we have to become more tech savy. But do it under our own terms and condition. Not because some stupid politician at the DOT or FMCSA thinks it's a good idea.

We shouldn't have to be treated like a bunch of illegal's in our own country. I'm not a kid anymore. I don't need anyone holding my hand keeping me out of trouble.

 

Metallica Fan???

I am starting to wonder how you O/O's pay the bills with all the BS running rampant today! So many technologies are getting forced on people everyday, and around 12-20% are actually ready for large scale implementation.

Landstar and how many others are low-jacking the trailers now?

My question is this, who do we turn to? Not to stop the tech implementation, but who is the one that can help us or at least slow it down until it is working properly?

When will it balance out? Too much one way or the other and the industry crashes.

 

With the new CSA rules the company is responsible for what your logs say, they are also held responsible now, points are now given to them too... CSA has made every company a watchman, lol. Just have to do everything by the book and safe.

 

I believe running legal saves lives, except for teams, they run legal and are the most dangerous drivers on the road, the most fatigued I have seen them, it is because you can not get decent rest while truck is moving down the highway, I have heard they think they sleep and then I find out they were both killed because the other fell asleep at the wheel. I have done a study, and fatigue is something you do not always realize you are even having. Fatigue is another silent killer. Have seen truckers pulling over on top of cars, because they were on the phone, lack of attention.... I know I take pictures of all and turn them into their safety department with the pictures. I FEAR CSA 2010 will not do what it is trying to do by getting the unsafe drivers off the road. It is unfair to drivers in so many ways, and I fear it is being put into place to shut trucking down all together. I hear more and more, ship the stuff by rail. I tell them good luck with that, they will have lots of empty shelves all over the country. Better stock up on the foods you like.

 

I have no problem with companies monitoring their drivers in their trucks. It's their company. It's their trucks. If your going to be a company driver, then you know what the people, who are paying you, expect.

But that should be it. The government's go no business telling companies how to operate.

And darn sure shouldn't tell those of us owner operators, in the small business world, when it's time for us to go night night...

 

That's part of the problem. Too many people believe the same thing as you. And leaves us independent minded, liberty loving drivers with no one to watch our backs. Every time you hear about a rollover, all you hear on the CB is, "The driver must have been running illegal, and fell asleep"

That's not true either. I can sleep just fine. But that's because I drive until I get sleepy. And then the g/f takes over until I get up.

How did you hear anything if they were both dead?

You've done a study?

Cell phones are different than falling asleep & log books.

Oh great. Another safety man with proof he's right...

Your right. It will put alot of drivers out of business. Problem is, it will put alot of good drivers, who've never killed anyone, out of a job.
Your idea and my idea of a good driver, are probably two different drivers. But none the less, the log books didn't keep drivers from falling asleep. Just as more gun laws aren't going t keep people from shooting each other.

Until a majority of truck drivers finally realize that the government and their regulations isn't what makes the roads safe, we will always be subjected to more and more regulations. Before long, the DOT will have access to your pre-pass's, fuel cards and black boxes in your trucks.

I for one, enjoy what's left of the independence in truck driving. And it really burns me to know that not enough drivers understand that you don't need the government to tell you when you have to stop working and when you can start.

Maybe it's my fault for listening to the old man who taught me to drive this way. If I had gone to school, let them spoon feed me all the safety propaganda, maybe I'd see things from a different perspective.

 

haven't seen a log book yet that knows when i'm sleepy. sleep and rest when you are tired, not when your ink pen thinks it's time.

 

back to the topic at hand. things will get worse there. they will do whatever they can to keep obr's out of their leased trucks because they know when that day comes , there will be a mass exodus. you will find this will become the norm at all big outfits, you fill in the name.

 

This coming from the driver that brags he uses his girlfriends log book so he can make money


You ask for permission to be on public roads. You ask for it when you apply for your own authority, or in your case attach yourself to a carriers authority.

Then you claim that you should be free to do as you wish. Well you can just not on the public's roads.

This not the world of Smokey and the Bandit, or that trash Convoy, or Black Dog! This is the real #### world where laws matter because we still have super truckers killing people with their decisions.



Landstar has every right in the world to ensure their contractors are meeting their expectations. Don't like it get your own numbers.

Wont do you much good. With advancements in technology being implemented all that craps gonna end.








If you want to drive whenever and however you wish make your own road to do it on.