DOT Proposes Use of Electronic Logbooks to Improve Efficiency, Safety in Commercial B

http://www.overdriveonline.com/eld-...vices-industry-groups-split-on-rules-support/

 

Prefer team driving with my dad, get home quicker to spend time with my family.

 

More seasoned drivers on here can correct me if I'm wrong, BUT when you stop, you change your status on the HOS to BREAK . While the 14 hr. clock doesn't stop, you're 11 hr will each time you take a break or stop. The 11 hr. clock is DRIVING time so if you're stopped to drop a load somewhere, you aren't driving. When your done at your stop, the elog will automatically put you back on-duty and restart the 11 hr clock when you get rolling again. At some point, the 14 hr. clock catches up to the 11, so then that becomes your deadline time to get done what you need to do.

I proof-read, and I think I got it right. Anyone else want to check me? (I'm the wife, not the driver).

 

Can't restart the 11 without taking a 10 hour break. Guess that's why you're the wife and not the driver.

11 hours in a 14 hour window, 70 hours in a 8 day period.

 

I didn't read that way. She's right. She was just saying the 11 was suspended until you roll again. Not a total reset of 11 hrs.

 

This law is going to go real well with the small companies..If buses will be required what happens if they're close to their required driving hrs,do the passengers have to take the required brk or do they send a relief driver.Interesting to see how all this goes.

 

The potential here is to lose driving time once the 14 hour clock has struck.

 

the only potential here is you can't cheat on your logs. They're not changing the HOS rules yet.

 

You might want to do some research on this, its getting pushed by the American Truckers Association, they are also going to pass a speed limiter law at the same time!! It will push all the o/o out of bis...

 

The biggest problem is detention time. Two hours to eight hours to get unloaded or loaded means there will be drivers maybe getting three loads and under 500 miles a week. Add in mega's where the dispatchers aren't very good at dispatching, not planning for time it takes to get empty and get to the next stop, and I predict trucking for some drivers is going to get a whole lot worse. At some point, shippers and receivers are going to have to be held accountable financially for detention times. We had better hope Uncle Scam goes after these people and enforces maximum unpaid detention times, because the brokers and companies are not going to care to enforce it.

Adam