forgot to switch to off duty on elogs

I figured it was a system specific problem and not a company thing. mine is pretty consistent at taking 3-6 minutes each time if I forget to manually change it. sometimes I NEED that 15-20 minutes or so at the end of the day I run my clock so tight.

I remember reading somewhere that it starts the clock from the time the brakes are pushed in and the wheels move. just creeping along doesn't matter, it's counting already once you move. the amount of time it takes from the clock when I forget to manually do it sometimes would bear that out.

no matter if I'm at a truckstop or shipper/receiver, whatever, I always wait until I'm at the point where I'm getting onto the road proper before I change it over. it's saved my ### a few times lol

 

I ran people net all year last year. I could edit anything except driveline.

Safety can edit your drive also.

Mine would switch from drive to on duty by it self after 5 minutes with the brake set.

DO NOT On Your Own Switch to Paper, thats not your call, the company showed you there wishes when they installed the elog.

 

Except the system was not working properly.

We are on Elogs, if my system goes down for whatever reason, unless someone can help me get it fixed, I'm switching to Paper.
The only reason they wouldn't be able to get it running is on the Weekend or at night if Safety is not working.

And I like being on Elogs. Just not gonna sit because the box is messed up.

 

I was at a Volvo shop and heard a driver going back and forth with his safety department because his 34 hour reset was messed up because he forgot to log out and the shop guys test driving his tractor put him on driving and on duty for about 18 hours lol.

 

Do you know if QC does that as well? I notice sometimes mine will jump ahead several minutes. Do you think manually switching to the drive line would fix it?

 

the QC is more company specific in my experience with it.......it will kick to the drive line based on a company set parameter (ours was 1.8 miles) but it doesn't take the big chunk of time away from you the peoplenet does. when the QC I ran changed over the time was accurate......but you could also fool it to some degree if you needed to pick up a few minutes if stuck in traffic and ours had a 1 minute 'grace period' to revert back to your previous status without it being locked in. with the peoplenet you can't do that once it changes over you're locked in from that moment.

you could try it and see but I've never seen a QC that had that quirk in it that would take more time away from you than you'd actually driven. the peoplenet will do it every time if you don't manually change the status.

 

Interesting....I'll have to keep an eye on that. Yeah, ours is set for 2:59 , as long as you switch back to off duty before that it will revert back to off duty time. Saved 22 minutes in Atlanta on I-285 the other day doing that.

 

Yeah. QC would never "punish" you for driving around a customer lot before getting on the road. Most would be once you ran a certain speed/distance for a set amount if time. I could sometimes get 2-3 miles of there were enough stoplights on the way. I got messed up on this Peoplenet though cause picking up at P&G with there huge facilities by the time I rolled out of there and sat at a light or 2 before it kicked me off drive I had "driven" for 12 minutes and gone about a mile. Do that enough times and and you'll easily lose 2-3 hours of driving a week.

Fm's suggestion will at least knock that number down significantly.

 

Yeah... that's is GREAT when you can do it yourself... I know the annotation thing too... However, in my co., ONLY safety person can do it... it's disabled for drivers...

 

My co. didn't know about the annotation page too... However, they have that feature DISABLED for their drivers...