Do you feel elogs should be mandatory or optional?

Last word I got from a reliable source is that trucks with mechanical engines will not be exempt. So they will either be obsolete, or relegated to intrastate only operations, as FMCSA has no authority over intrastate, unless someone developes an E-log that meets specs for mechanicals.

 

Nope I m good. People welcome it with open arms, it is no wonder to me why we are where we are!

 

You think they could make an elog that goes off of GPS location only. As in, you move more than "x" amount of yards or meters and it puts you on line 3 instead of going off of engine ECM readings? I'm sure someone could make the tech to do it, there are a pot of guys running mechanicals that will be out of business if they have to buy a new truck I'm sure.

Ethan

 

Actually, they can. It happens all the time, in different industries. Do you think a DC-3, that is still in commercial service, is still running the same avionics as back in the 1930s and 1940s, when they were first built?

 

That's a good point.

Ethan

 

So essentially you're saying you won't work in an industry that requires EOBR's because they prevent you from operating illegally. If you think you're helping your cause by posting this on a public forum, you're wrong.

 

Please explain exactly how voicing an opinion in this thread will prevent the creation of regulation. Its an internet forum. It has about as much power to change government regulation decisions as a goldfish has on the path of a hurricane.

 

This is true. But I don't believe there are any DC3's in use in commercial passenger service in this country. Freight ops, yeah. But not scheduled passenger. And that point is significant because the FAA requires equipment for aircraft used for scheduled passenger service that is not required for freight ops or 'on demand' passenger ops. So yeah there are very few DC3's operating with the same avionics as when they were first built, but there also very few (probably none?) that could be used for scheduled passenger service in this country and the cost to retro fit the required equipment for those ops has a lot to do with that.

 

I will long be retired by the time they try to force old the mechanical trucks off interstate travel. Looking at 20 years before something like that would take place. Unless the government does a "cash for clunkers" type deal with older trucks and give oh I don't know lets say $30,000 for each truck and give grants so owners can go and buy new trucks. Like I said there is way to much involved that will not allow an industry wide mandate.