You Can Thank These Companies For Pushing ELDs.

Back before the 10hr break became the rule and the break was 8hr, a co-worker had 8 logbooks, each 1 hour ahead of the last one. That way, as a daycab driver who hauled processed chicken parts to company feed mills(who went beyond the 'air mile' requirement for using a logbook), if they need him to run an extra load, he had the hours on one of the books.

 

Lol that's crazy

 

Exactly Jumbo and at the Union docks where they may have a 4 hour window to unload you, what's the chance they will do it in 2? Going to lose small fleets and older drivers for sure! George Orwell nailed it with 1984!

 

Just wait til the next time a Wally driver runs over a car load of comedians.
The NTSB will immediately make it a law to have cams ON the drivers.
They did it to trains last year when the Amtrak jumped the curb and the engineer pled amnesia.
We're one bad wreck away.
Jus sayin

 

I had fun back in the day
Now I would never get into Trucking.
But I'm stuck now.

 

I'm glad I got out.

 

You can buy a 1999 and older truck and be exempt from the new ELD mandate and run paper till you can't run more.

Problem solved

 

Not many companies will let you run a 17 yr old truck
And the scales will pick you to pieces.

 

Sure