ford 7.3 engine and E-logs

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  1. paulpost

    paulpost Light Load Member

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    Hi are all 7.3 engines compatible with e-logs hook up ?
    If the truck was built in 1999 but as a 2000 model do you have to have an e-log in 2017?
     
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    99 and below is exempt. It may be in court for years anyway.
    I wouldn't worry to much about it yet most of these new guys will be gone by the effective date.
     
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    I was not too concerned about this regardless of the outcome. I believe the common truck GPS units from Rand and Garmin offer an HOS option that can be downloaded and used your e-log record if I am not mistaken. I find my Garmin 770 to be very accurate and easy to use for tracking my HOS as a back up for my Qualcomm.
     
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    The problem I have with it is: I feel it's an invasion of privacy and being monitored like a child.
    Last time I got an level one at TN 65N super scale.
    They were telling me that scale houses will be equipped to flag HOS violation as soon as you pass the sensors.
    Strangely the police there felt like it be a violation of privacy as well.
    Or maybe job endangerment because big brother will be able to just mail you a violation like red light cameras.
     
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    I do not really care either way on the matter. If one is not violating the DOT rules then it should not matter how it is recorded. It is difficult for me to use e logs only because I never had them until recently. They have made my life quite a bit easier by automatically tracking my miles per state and such. I will say that until I was used to the steps, it created some issues with my log department but once I had it figured out, it was pretty straight forward and convenient.
     
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    When u get that cdl license and get behind the wheel of a cmv, you've accepted losing your right to privacy while in operation of that cmv. That's the way the law is.
     
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    No you don't. Your rights as a citizen don't get suspended because you drive a commercial vehicle. Did you learn that nonsense in a public school?
     
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    your constitutional rights trump a cdl and driving a truck. This is what they want you to believe.
    now a company can have a policy that could interfere but not the government.
    This is one reason when I find something that will allow the same benefits I'm done with the truck thing.
    Most drivers I meet will gladly give up their time, rights and any type of a normal life to work for near nothing.
    Whenever you get in that truck and drive beyond 50% of your hours your selling 11 hours drive time and actually performing 23 hours of work. .It's so easy for them to fool the simple minded.
     
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    You should know they teach nothing in school now. The world will be full of metro-sexual males who'll submit like sheep in few years. Their political hero is the bern a ,man who didn't have a steady paycheck till he was nearly 40.
    People are getting dumber by the day.
     
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    Sad but true and it seems like truck drivers are the biggest bunch of sheep out there.
     
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