Changes to P&G contract freight.....

True, but the majority of the industry is made up of owner operators. Freight movement will be impacted pretty heavily as this sector of the industry is forced into elogs by this mandate.

There is still a ton of small fleets on paper logs moving JIT automotive loads as well as other time sensitive loads. Loads that are just a little too tight for a solo in a 60mph truck on Elogs, but no way you are going to keep teams employed by giving these loads to them either. Companies are going to be pulling their hair out trying to get this all organized.

I was pulling a tanker before coming over here back in 2013. At that point, we had been on elogs for about two years. When I left, it was still a mess. Plants were trying to order product early, so we had time to get there, only to have something go wrong to where they either ran out before we arrive (resulting in a plant shutdown), or us getting there and not having enough room for the product (huge demurrage fees). We would even try putting a team on some loads, which resulted in not having the drivers needed for other loads. Ultimately, it led to me leaving a .50/mile job because we converted over from non forced dispatch to being ultimately forced into all sorts of crap loads and pushed to do anything we "had the hours" to do.

Here at Schneider, elogs are no big deal. I really don't mind them at all. Where I was, it turned a really nice job into a nightmare.