Why CSA 2010 and E-Logs are a good thing.

G/Man, I must disagree with this discussion being moot. It is not moot until the rule is squashed once and for all or the rule is fully in place with all court battles surrounding it settled.

Now. We have ascertained the insurance companies are heavily vested in EOBRs. Next step, whose campaigns have benefited most directly by donations from insurance companies?

See how the money trail works?

 

How many safety directors set a problem driver down and teach them how to log? Do any companys still take a new driver in and check to see if they can even use a log book?
There are loads of vary safe drivers that have no idea how to use todays log rules. I bet there aint 3 on here now that can do a 8 and 2 split break on paper and not muck it up.

 

http://littlesis.org/search?q=Qualcomm&x=0&y=0
Pick most any name and see where there money is going and who is getting money. If you dig deep you'll find who's kin to who in the powers to be.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Qualcomm-spends-195M-lobbying-apf-248424937.html Spreading a little cash around among some friends in the fed.

 

I sit down with drivers every day of the week to teach them how to log. I also teach a class on hours of service. All new drivers that come thru orientation are required to pass a logging test (even though were 100% eLogs). I'll agree with you on the 8 and 2 split.

then again, I'm not a safety director.

 

Thats good and I bet your company is only one in a few that do. But before you went to e-logs did anyone every take a driver in and set him down after 2 or 3 bad on the road insps to see what there problem was or why they were doing the things that they were? I say most companys where white washing it and never said much of nothing to them.

I thought you were in the Safety Department aint ya?

 

Since CSA 2010 kicked in our safety department has been trying to urge drivers to sign up for prepaid legal to fight tickets . Not long ago they sent us e-mails about fighting overweight tickets .
All our loads are weighed before we sign for them . There is no excuse for being overweight .

 

Swift has been doing this since before the first time I worked for them. And I proved last year that even most safety guys don't completely understand 8/2.

 

Well there is an excuse for being overweight but none that I care to share at this point in time on here.
What dose your post have to do with EBOR's and E-logs?

 

Do alittle reshearch on are fine gov and pull your head out of the sand. Gov officials do and can invest and profit from a company they regulate, its one of there perks thats bin going on for years and over looked. Its bin all over the news lately because people and some lawmakers are in an uproar about it. Theres even a bill in the house to stop it but nothing law yet. Stop thinking the gov is your freind and they do no wrong because it is so far from the truth. Its not just gov official eithier, corporate officials do it all the time, some get caught most do not.[/QUOTE]

You bet they do... They even have a name for it.... and many many many offices in Washingtion...

It's called Lobbying.

 

Good point, Injun. When there are billions of dollars on the table and you have the inside track on the government they are not likely to give up easily. That is the way the democrats have gotten some of their nutty spending bills through. They keep coming back again and again and again until they wear down the opposition. Once they wear the opposition down enough or find an opening they attack and the next thing you know we have a new mandate or spending bill or law. And then the money starts to flow. If anyone other than these people did the same thing they would be thrown in jail and the key thrown away.