Falisfy or log a violation?

Heh, gotta save those.

Found out something I suspected today. I was talking to another driver and the mileage came up, as usual. His truck is identical to mine and he's averaging 6.5. My average for this week was 6.1. Guess what the difference is.







My truck is limited to 66.5 and his is capped at 72. Yeah, he's getting better mileage running 70.

 

take that crap to the political forum where i think with that comment you would be far outnumbered.

 

I kind of fit that bill. I don't think I've condemned anyone for the occasional fudging but I do say keep it legal.

I take the OP to be about the one time or rare ooops and I really don't see any reason in bringing attention to it. Anyone who makes a habit of being over their hours, losing whole trips, backing it up hours or what have you is obviously hiding it. With satellite tracking, time stamps, cell phone tracking, cameras everywhere and all the other ways of proving someone wasn't where they said they were at the time they said, I don't think it's worth the risk.

But, if someone wants to do that it's their life. I don't believe a person magically becomes unsafe after exactly 11 hours of driving, or magically gains an additional two hours of competency when crossing the border to Canada. If I had driven when the realities were different I'm sure I would have been very creative with the book but in todays world I'm paranoid about keeping my license and csa clean.

 

I'm not really. They act like this is the only thing I can ever do. It isn't.

 

So has dispatch started flagging the elog trucks yet?

I sat through our class even though I can not go on them yet.No line 5, we really have no need for one being as we are home for our resets on the weekends. They are making dispatch take the class so they grasp the concept that the edges of the box slammed alot tighter with these.

 

I look at it this way,
My book always looks legal when i hit the scales.
I'm not admitting anything that could get me in trouble with Mr.DOT officer...

I'm so glad we do not have any E-logs,Qual-Com or any of that crap on the trucks yet.
Just loose leaf paper logs.
The more the wheels turn the faster i get the week finished and the more money i make.
I can get 1200 plus miles on full fuel tanks so i fuel near the yard and turn that receipt in before i roll out.

 

And why does this statement apparently anger you?

Could it be because it's true?

 

I'd say the number one reason is politics don't belong here!

There are of course many other reasons of which none have anything to do with you being correct.

I personally don't intend to fuel your agenda by engaging you in this unnecessary crap.

Thanks for stopping by.