More musings about EOBR's and regulations...

your 4 years ....dont judge me or anyone else out here,oh never smoked pot or drank to come down,your talking out the side of your mouth.you were not there,do us a favor go back to what ever you were doing for 51 years.and let me truck

 

The older so-called renegades and outlaws will be gone sooner or later.........WTF Plenty of drivers still run paper logs and that does not make them a renegade or an outlaw. I have been running paper logs for 30 years and I will always run on paper logs....Most of the drivers have to be on Elogs because they are too stupid to fill out a paper log and they just applied the vasoline and bent over and took the screwing.

The government can invent all the technology they want to... both now and in the future , but in my truck it will never replace the ink to paperlog

 

Scooter, you shouldn't believe everything you hear. I have been trucking since 1992 and at no time have I seen evidence of drug or alcohol problems among truck drivers.
Statistics show truck drivers have low positive drug test rates. Furthermore, almost all drug/alcohol related crashes involve non-truck drivers.
Over the years I have met many decent old timers that were safe , hard working people.
I would try to tell you how things used to be, but I think it would just be a waste of my time.

 

Most drivers just back into a spot at the truck stop and close their curtains for the night so they don't see what really happens out back. I walk my dog all throughout the day and/or night, see lots of truckers drinking their cold beers behind their flatbed and throwing their bottles and cans on the ground for someone else to pick up.

New drivers coming into the industry are not the reason for Elogs. The old culture of cheating is the cause and of course lawyers and ambulance chasers.

 

answer this,in 70 we had books and said run legal boys,no lose leaf then somewhere along the line they gave us lose leaf,made it easier to cheat,run legal boys,3 years you have no clue as what you are talking about,but then again you have plenty of company on here,

 

33 years and you don't have a clue . E-logs were lobbied by ATA . Increased costs to push out smaller carriers . Money saving way to audit thousands of trucks and keep track of idling and fuel wasting speeds .
Nothing to do with safety . It's all about carrier profit .
If FMCSA wanted safety they would criminally prosecute carriers for log falsifications rather than fine a carrier with 10,000 trucks $10,000 .
Small carrier owners have been prosecuted . Never a megacarrier .

 

I'm not sure I got the point you were trying to make with this post. Maybe it was simply that the E-log is such a great tool that it will tar and feather anyone that did their best but the parking spot they found it took them 11 hours and 1 minute to do it. I agree with you that we should not have drugged up drivers, or drivers on the road for 30 consecutive hours. That all (statistically) leads to bad things happening. I also agree that the E-log makes log auditing far more efficient for large carriers as well as knowing driver available hours and if dispatchers have a brain trip planning can be very efficient also. I must ask you though, since it is benefiting you or your company and you are becoming more efficient and compliant, then why would you want your competition to be as efficient and compliant as you are? Eventually you will come out on top, no?

I own one truck and trailer and run my own authority. I realize if I am going to expand, it will most likely have to include EOBRs, for the very reasons stated above. Only a few years ago, I will admit I was the guy who would spend WAY more hours driving than I should have. I am lucky it never cost me more than some small tickets. I have smartened up. Now if I do that and am caught, I will be done. All the money I have put out to run this will be flushed right down the crapper. With that being said, making SMART decisions EVERY DAY about how much is an appropriate amount of driving to do for that day is much more to my liking. Knowing the delivery is set for a certain time BEFORE I EVEN PICK UP THE LOAD, if I can do it legit then I will haul it. If they ask for the impossible then I tell them to call a team. I should also note here, that I will on occasion make small adjustments to my log when situations BEYOND MY CONTROL arise. Say when I pick up a load and the next 3 truck stops all have no parking at 4 pm. I am of the mind that it is better to carry on to the next place and rest there, and make it all look fine and dandy on paper, rather than explain to a computer which may or may not ever be checked as to why I should not be written an expensive ticket for it. Of course, this brings up the parking issue, which is totally another topic, but let's not address the real problems in trucking. Let's just make it ever increasingly burdensome for the driver.

So why should I, as a one truck operator, be forced to have this costly device? Sure, my authority is only 1 year old now and I am still a very young company, but my CSA scores reflect that I am a safe operator. I just really see no benefit for the extra cost in MY operation. Those that ARE running it and are finding greater efficiencies in their own operations, more power to them. The independents, LEAVE US ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!