Sign the petition on the new elog mandate!

Do me a favor boss....call a big company and pretend you are a customer and ask them to give u a quote on a 1200 mile trip with 45000 pound ld....see what they tell you....watch how much money they charge you

 

Both are pretty much one and the same, no? After all, who is lobbying the govt to mandate elogs?

I suppose each of us have our tolerance (or price) for how much we're willing to let govt or capitalists stick their hand up our rectum and control us like sock puppets.

By simply reading the title of this thread, it's easy to see that it was meant for those who have less tolerance. If the topic creates pain and suffering for people who like elogs, the title should make it easy enough to avoid.

 

Well, then go out quote that much and develop your own accounts! Sounds like a solution for what ails ya!

 

I know how much they charge and its already in play ob my end...but do you know how much they charge

 

Nope. Don't really care. What I have as part of my contract with my carrier is agreed to by both of us. If I thought I was getting the shaft, I would just move on. I hope they are getting the maximum the market will allow. I am not into the class warfare game and worrying daily about any spread between what the carrier gets and what I do. I am not forced into anything. We have agreed on the terms and so I am here. When, and if, we cannot agree, then we will go separate ways.

 

I like paper, I signed and I shared on facebook

 

Ive just taken the past 2 hours to read through this entire thread and here is my take. Keep in mind, I am not a driver yet, I do understand the argument for Elog's and I understand the want to keep paper logs as I hear the argument from my father who is a driver for the last 20years.

I understand how the elogs will cause SOME drivers heartache and issues with running legal and forcing them to stop at highly inconvenient times. I also understand how it helps to keep a company honest and accountable with their drivers (assuming the company doesnt edit without notice), I also agree with both sides of the argument here. However these petitions mean jack ####. The government is gonna do what they want to do regardless what a few hundred thousand constituents that are spread across the entire country think. One thing I see going on in this thread is a lot of ######## and complaining from people on both sides and only a few who have stood out and made or say they made attempts to make a change by contacting their congressmen and bringing the issue into their view. If you people who despise Elogs dont want them, then put your money where your mouth is, and vote. Simple as that. That is the only way you are gonna get this FMCSA talking head Anne Ferro out of office and get someone else in the position that is a friend of the industry and understands how it works. From my homework Rep's Richard Hanna and Tom Rice are a couple that understand the so called science behind the rules is flawed.

What it is gonna take is for drivers like all of you, and potential drivers like myself to bring this issue to the forefront and make a solid argument that is based on logic, reason, and facts, not emotion and name calling. The statistical data is out there, use it to your advantage and contact your rep's. Use it to convince your friends that Elogs are not the answer for everyone that it should be an option for those who wish to use them, but make sure those who dont are still held accountable. Personally I think the idea that the guy over at http://www.hosoverhaul.com/ is onto a great idea. Adjusting the HOS some and still keeping the elogs, but allowing drivers to split their HOS as needed or warranted is a great idea.

Yeah I signed this petition, as well as the one over at hosoverhaul.com, I did so because namely I think forcing more regulation onto an industry that is already overly regulated is making it even harder for our economy to recover, and its forcing hard working men and women drivers, o/o, teams, company's to work harder, for less pay, but is forcing more ######## regulations on them just because this administration is all about regulations and telling people what they should and shouldn't do as if they know what is best for them. If all you are gonna do is sit back and ##### about it on facebook, TTR, youtube, and not make an attempt to make a change by using your vote to do so, then in my opinion, you dont have any fight in it at all. For myself I have exercised my right to vote every time since I started voting in 1998, I vote the conservative/libertarian vote because those are ideals that fall in line with mine.


In the end, if your gonna take time to ##### about it, then you best be doing something about it or you look like you're nothing more then another complainer trucker.

 

I think we should focus more on tolls and the d.o.t man messing with usfor no reason...and pay...from what I was told the elogs are not for the driver....there to restrict the company from telling us do a 2500 mile trip in 2 days or we are fired

 

I've never had a dot man mess with me in any way shape or form. Maybe it's because I always choose to drive for good companies with good reputations and I always run legal and keep my nose clean. Whatever the reason I don't see the dot as a enemy. I see them as a boss. Everyone has a boss. These guys that own their own truck and think that's the end of it are funny to me. Just cause you own a business doesn't mean you stop having a boss. In fact you have more of them
Because your the guy at the top so you have more people to answer to. The rules and regs have come about because of problems in the past. Plain and simple. We as drivers have done it to our selves by running two log books, running coast to coast runs in 3 days, by passing all the scales, speeding, causing accidents, having a "cowboy attitude" as I've heard it said. We have no one to blame but ourselves. Now that the laws and government have finally caught up to us now were complaining about it. I refer to the old saying "you made your bed, now lie in it."

 

Woah! Hold on a second. I understand your point and yes they do serve an important purpose to keep the trash off the roads. I dont always see them as the enemy either but lets agree to call them anything but the boss, seeing that its yours and our tax dollars paying there salaries and I have no problem what so ever reminding a lippy LEO of this after I was nothing but polite to him for whatever reason.