Another failed e-log monitoring

Elogs don't protect anyone from driver error, you are right. What they protect YOU and your CDL from is a company asking you to drive illegal.

If you seriously think that drivers are driving MORE hours/miles now on eLogs vs Paper, you are living on a different planet than the rest of us. The biggest complaint I get about eLogs in that they can't run as many hours, or they can't run with 2 (or 3) doctored log books...

 

Oh the boogie man. Personal responsibility is what it comes down too. Don't tell I do not know I drive elogs. I'm tired I rest. Period. And I know if your ##### in about them I can catch you fatigued behind the wheel.

 

E Logs don't keep you from running illegal. Plenty of companies are still running their drivers illegally that use them. Any electronic data recorder and the information it records can be altered and manipulated. Computers and the information they record are not the end of drivers cheating on their logs.

 

They do.

 

Running E-log doesn't guarantee a rested driver, especially if they are running at 3:00 am after sitting all day waiting on a load, thinking they can run all night with out a nap. My body tells me when to take a break....and when to drive. The company can suck lug-nuts if they think different.

 

I-80 ne. 0345 governed- truck this could have been a well rested person who let boredom take hold

 

Bored on a snow pack road in the middle of the night? the article stated "Slick conditions and Perez falling asleep at the wheel contributed to the crash." Like that Walmart driver who killed the comic on 95.....asleep at the wheel while truck was on autopilot.

 

There has been talk of the industry of going to electronic HOS recording ever since I started driving.. And now com My the 29th of this month, we'll have anti-coercion regs. And yet I still hear "they can't do that!! It's excessive regulation!!" ... By the same people I heard year after year with the usual complaints of companies harassing them to go or else, regardless if they were sleep-deprived or out of hours. The notion that this industry could police itself is a joke. For years we ran with the idea that "real trucker drive hammer down, never mind that log book". Not anymore, and not with truck-wreck lawyers ready to pounce on even the slightest mistake.

 

if you let your company PUSH YOU when your tired , that's YOUR PROBLEM.
By law now they cannot coerce you in any way shape or form.
But i guess no one takes the time to read/ listen to the news now days.

 

Since I have driving I have only used e-logs. These logs dont make people drive, When big brother looks over your shoulder to question what u are doing then we as drivers get apprehensive. Only us the driver sees what is outside our windows not the company of FM. If you establish a good working relationship with your FM then when you say that This cant be done for whet ever reason then your FM will have your back. I have sat with and discussed with every FM I ever had what my priorities are and what need from them as well what is expected of me. If you screw up that is your screw up not mine or the company or FM. Doesn't matter whether you have elogs or paper logs.