E logs

I guess it depends on your company and how they have them set up or ordered them. There are different makes and models and it depends on what parameters are built into them. I'm sure you can ask your safety dept or shop personal to find out.

 

no.......he said "what if he was at a truck stop, does he have to call a cab"....did YOU NOT READ THAT.......???

you ain't as smart as YOU THINK you are.....

 

I am at Conway Truckload we have E-logs(thru Qualcom) you drop down on "Line#5-"Off Duty drive time"(this gives us a hour a day to do personal things like u ask,btw its actual driving time,not just a hour,get done go back to sleepr or off duty and resume your 34)

 

Many companies (mine included) will terminate you for logging out of the E-Log system except when you go home (leaving truck at yard) or if your truck is going into the shop.

 

I really dislike them. I think the whole thing is to inflexible.

 

I wonder how many drivers will either retire or find another line of work once EOBRs are mandated. As far as I can tell the large companies will have no problems as they can usually relay a load if a driver is gonna be short or held up. Maybe that's why the big fleets are backing the mandate to "level the playing field" knowing that the smaller carriers will have a tough time meeting service standards. Once competition is eliminated then rates will go up and everything you buy will cost more for the sake of safety..oops I meant compliance enforcement. Then after you can't talk anyone into doing this for a living (being away from home, racing the clock, can't stop to nap, crap, etc.) the Mexicans can come up and deliver all our freight for us safer than we could ever do ourselves. Then instead of "Big Brother" watching you it'll be "Big Hombre,or Amigo, or whatever".

 

Big difference between e-logs and eobr's.

 

Example of how e-logs killed my desire.. I live in San Antonio, and I joined Total Trans last year because a friend was there and had good things to say. After a couple of ugly trucks that broke, I was given a new Volvo 780.. no e-logs... and was running a dedicated (so to speak) run from Memphis to Schertz, TX, which is 5 miles from my house. I was home 3 nights a week, time off was easy, and I still got 3200-3500 per week. This run is roughly 690 miles, takes every bit of a whole shift if you log it VERY carefully.

E-logs were introduced, and then no one could make the 690 mile run in 11 hours, even with a 70 mph truck... sliding through Austin, Georgetown, Waco, the edge of Dallas, plus Little Rock while the E-log is recording actual mph averages... can't be done.

So, I lost my San Antonio runs, my weekly mileage dropped down below 2,000 a week because they didn't know how to dispatch and properly utilize a driver's 14 hours... and that Schertz run was the only thing they had going to the San Antonio area.. so now more regular hometime.. so I left.

 

That's the catch with e-logs. Either the company is gonna figure it out and be good at dispatching a pre-planning or they are gonna suck at it. There won't be a middle of the road with it.

 

For instance, you do 2-3 hours in the morning to finish a run... but they don't have you pre-planned on something and they take all day to get you a load. You started at 0500... they give you a load at 1600... you can only drive til 1900.