Effects of the ELD

I'm really hoping the ELD mandate gets shot down. But I doubt it will. I'm currently employed, but I'm considering getting another truck. I can get freight to get out of my area consistently, but in the past and again in the future, I would sometimes have to rely on the spot market to get back home or to an area with contracted freight. The loads I usually found the most profit in, would be six to seven hundred miles, and barely had enough time to make the delivery. On paper logs that isn't a problem. ELDS are going to get you doing those on a regular basis, at some point. We all know squeezing out an extra half hour of driving, or an extra hour or two of work during the week, isn't what causes accidents. Is changing delivery times a big deal? I never have, I've always been a be on time kind of driver. But with elogs? Will the rates increase so loads don't get cut close? What do you all perceive happening when most everyone is logging electronically?

 

If you read my post, you would see that I am a company driver now, and run straight up. Possibly I didn't word that the best way, but I didn't say I ran illegally. A load can be picked up, and positioned 700 miles away with time for a ten hour break and delivered on time, completely legal. It's just that ELDs aren't forgiving when things don't go as planned. If you want to know what makes drivers run illegally, possibly you could start a thread on that subject. I was looking for feedback to my questions.

 

No, it is not valid to this thread. You want it to be valid, start a thread. If everything was black and white like you two want to pretend it is, OOs would be embracing ELDs. But they aren't.

 

The reading comprehension on this site, it's not all that great.

 

Ohhh, so you speak for all OOs. I wish someone would have introduced us, I had no idea, the leadership before me.