E-logs will equal more parking

Not gonna happen. There will be new drivers to take the place of the ones that leave. Most trips do not require you to drive your full eleven or only take a 10 hour break. If you are going 700 miles and you have a late appointment there is no need to rush, especially if you have a crane appointment.

 

I believe it will be the other way, with drivers forced to park when their hours run out thereby less parking for more trucks trying to park.

 

That makes much more sense.

When I was OTR and on paper , I would go home if I was close. On elogs, I'da been taking up a parking spot in a truck stop 1/2 hr from home. If I ran into a snow storm and the consignee was on the other side of it, I'd get there and sleep rather than get stuck in a jammed up truck stop. On elogs, I'd be out of hours and contributing to the clusterfu..

 

True, E-logs do not ALLOW someone to make common sense decisions on their own,(like previously stated)

Thus, Making our Industry ANGRIER than it already is.....

Here's the Fix, Let us Drivers Do our Jobs without interference of any Kind...Lose all these drivers that don't "Really" know what they want to do with their lives...And Rely on 'others' for assistance in driving a truck.

This is AMERICA, I proudly Drive My truck with Pride, I use my own judgments, And its been working safely and My customers are serviced without problems

 

Really dude? You are legally allowed to drive over your hos in order to find safe and secure parking. If i was in your shoes that truck stop a half hour from my house would be full. Not my fault the next closest safe parking area is my house.

 

I think before they consider mandating elogs, they should take care of the shipper/receiver problems. If they dont, you will see more trucks parking in the day and more trucks running at night. You'll have to so you can stay by the elog. JMO

 

Yea I prefer running at night because theres not that much traffic late at night but when they mandate elogs, there will probably be more truck traffic at night than there is during the day.

 

The way shipping and receiving is now, youll be lucky if you get unloaded and reloaded the same day but if you do, you'll be out of hours and will have to take a break, meaning youll have to run the load at night. They need to buckle down on them- 2 hours max at any shipper/receiver. That will still take 4 hours of your 14 on the elog.