ELD BECOMES LAW IN 60 DAYS

THIS, THIS, 1,000,000 TIMES THIS!!!

It never ceases to amaze me how much of a jerk these people can be. It's like they have no courtesy, and couldn't care less about it. Just let the truck that is actually able to run the speed limit get around. It may cost them 5 seconds to do so, but they just don't care. I deal with it a lot when I run Texas. It's not like I want to be a menace, I just want to run the speed limit.

 

All I can say is "BooHoo" to the guys that are crying "I can't run illegal any more if I have to go on e-logs" and before you chime in saying it has nothing to do with that? Yeah right! If you ran legal? Going on e-logs wouldn't matter! I've ran on paper and I've ran on e-log, no big deal

 

Well I will chime in. As stated previously, It is not about being to run illegal. It is about the inflexibility within the mandate. Every sector of trucking is different. People who cannot see this are delusional. What works for D/H guys, will not work for livestock haulers. What works for hourly LTL guys, will not work for OTR LTL peddlers. Again, it is not about running illegal. I run paper, does not mean I run illegal. Got an inspection yesterday in fact. NO VIOLATIONS. Big freakin deal. I don't run up against my 70, rarely use more than 45-50 hours a week, however, that still doesn't mean in a day to day situation, I don't need a lil flexibility in my day to make it off a job site, or away from a shipper to a safe haven. Trip plan all ya want, but don't speed thru parking lots, construction zones, etc. just to make your countdown clock work. Anyway, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but mine is that it is nothing more than the big companies trying to buy CONTROL.

 

THANKS x 100

 

Example, bear with me.
I recently delivered a machine; late in the afternoon (dark), well under my drive/work hours for the day, in a river valley in the snow & ice. I asked the customer if there was anywhere close that I could get out of the valley (it was snowing) to park & lay over for the night. He said "sure, jump in my jeep and I'll show you and also show you an easier way to get back to the highway". Great! Took a ride with him, along the way he asked if I'd eaten & bought me dinner at a little diner- cool! 2 hrs later back at the truck, fired it up & drove 5 miles parked & went to bed. Did I log that and start my 10 then? Heck no. Does that make me an outlaw? Would the ELD have logged it? I know you can "edit" the ELD but it has to show a dotted line where the change was made and my 5 miles was "driving", no way around that.

 

Ok? So once you have started your clock on paper, say at 6am? You shut down no later than 8pm? Anyone with half a brain can pass a DOT on paper, doesn't mean they actually ran legal, just looks that way on paper

 

Not all companies allow you to edit your own elog

 

Well most of the time prior to that! However, if I'm right against it and have been held up for any number of reasons, then yes I will move things around as needed to go to a safe haven. At which point I will shower and eat, ya know the BS that the idiot box would deny your doing. As much as people want to say that it makes no difference, in my world it does. We are gonna agree to disagree, you and I, because when and IF it does become the law of the land, at that point I will rethink my strategies of loads, but not before.
On another note, your claim that anyone with half a brain can pass a DOT inspection while on paper doesn't hold water. Look at the majority of over threshold companies. Most of them are over in HOS violations. To truly run paper, you must be willing to engage the gray matter between ones ears. People that can't, have to be controlled, so they put a lil box in truck to tell you when,what, and where.

 

I was under the impression the elog was implemented, because megas kept hiring half dead brain people, who could not keep paper looking good even if running completely legal, which was getting companies in trouble, so they got a computer to baby sit these drivers. I bet a crap load of drivers don't even know how to do paper, because computer does everything for them

 

A bit of common sense and savvy goes a long way.