Petition to stop EOBRs

I just ran 4200 miles on my 70. Legal. With an e-log. In my opinion the e-log seperates the men from the boys out here. Keep that door closed. The e-log hasn't taken anything away from me. I make more than I did before. I don't break out in a sweat going through scales either. I've said this in other threads. The major mega fleets wanted these in every truck to "level the playing field" and kill off competition. They calculated wrong and what the EOBR's actually did was make the drivers and companies more efficient. Believe what you want, that's the truth. I don't think they should be forced, however. But I do believe that once a driver is on an E-log system, they'd be amazed at the time they save on that 70 and less wear & tear on your body.

 

I agree. I've financially had my best year since I've been in trucking and doing it on elogs as well. I'm only coming into my 6th year and Been on elogs for 1 full year. I don't miss the days of sitting all day to get creative on the logs to get precious fed ex, Conway overnighters done.

 

I will agree that there should be no mandate, and it will cause a kink in some operations like livestock haulers, but the EOBR thing is not that big of a deal. The carrier I am with had converted most of the trucks over to EOBR a couple of years ago, but had not said anything to me. I knew it would be inevitable, so I demanded they install the thing so that I could get past all the channel 19 clap trap and find out how they really worked. Well, almost 2 years later, I am still here, and I am doing better than ever. I could have easily pulled my truck and moved elsewhere, but at least I gave it a shot to find out if it would work. It has. Sure, it requires those that plan and book loads to do it more effectively, but it has made the overall operation more efficient. And due to the cost savings to the carrier thru less manhours spent on processing logs ,etc, both company drivers and O/O have gotten two pay raises since these things got put into place.

 

IMHO....They should only be mandatory for Habitual HOS Violators.....

Everyone else....DOT should allow those who run legal to have a choice...

 

so basically the three of you are saying you made more money driving completely legal than before when you were driving illegal?

so its not the elogs, its you obeying the law

and your planners planning you better

but its not the elogs

so if the INDUSTRY planned loads better, no one would have to drive illegal, without all this hoopla about elogs, it boils down to the planners

well, thats a novel idea, the people who plan and book the loads need to be on elogs, NOT the drivers

 

I would like to hear what type of company some of the people on e-logs work for in order to make more money. Is it all drops and hooks? The small time operator will still have to spend time loading/unloading at a dock, whereas the huge guy with 10,000 trailers can drop it and go. The e-log should only be forced upon those who are consistently in violation of the rules. And I am not talking about, you added up your mileage wrong for the day and the little things add up to equal that you are a fatigued driver. I am talking about the ones who actually drive beyond the legal 11/14. I also believe, like stated earlier by another person, he is 3 hours from his house and his family is carrying on with Thanksgiving without him. What the hell is that. How many times will that happen before he decides "well, enough of this" and does something else?

I will say this. It is ALL in the planning. E-logs have simply made it easier for a dispatcher to see where the truck is in real time, they can see driver HOS, they can better estimate delivery/pickup times, and so forth. Ever since I got my own authority setup, I don't NEED to EVER screw around with my log at all! Life is really easy when you have even a basic plan of where you will sleep each night and what cities you must make in order to deliver as they are asking. This way if you are behind from the get-go you already know you will be late and can tell them accordingly. I really think an Elog would not change the way I am conducting myself, but I do not need or want or see the value in the extra cost as a single independent. I can see how it makes it easier for large companies to dispatch a huge volume of trucks, as well as tracking for accurate fuel tax reporting and what not.

Kinda funny how everyone that has never been a truck driver is deciding what is the best for us. Maybe once they have driven every north-american born driver to other industries and it is all foreign workers they will be happy. You want to see the next terrorist act? Who do you think would be capable to actually put it together and pull off a nationwide trucker strike? Tell me that ain't the next one.

 

What I am getting from statements like this is that you didn't know how to do your job and deliver products from point A to B on time when you were given the opportunity to run paper and since the company put you on E-logs to monitor you closer now you are forced to keep running and therefore are getting to places on time and now are making more money because you are running harder. Like 4200 miles in 70hrs. Keep on pushing and be more dangerous than the guys on paper.

 

4200 miles in a week?....Meh.....

We have a poster here who claims he runs 6K a week....For $1900 gross....Now that's living.....

 

As long as a driver does his job and moves the truck as told to do then they make money. If anyone is making more money running E-logs then you weren't doing your jobs while running paper. Otherwise there is no way someone running E-logs can make more money than a guy running the same loads but on paper. NO WAY AT ALL POSSIBLE.

 

Thats where we use common sense to eliminate the bsers that push E-logs.