ELD's and pickups,

So running a tow truck they have to have e logs, or is it a deal if they go past 50 miles or so from their home base
This might be interesting. Hey Bob's towing. Yes can I help. Yea I'm stuck in the ditch can you come get me.
sure right after my 10 hour break
But it's cold and I wanna get home
we understand but with the new rules we need to take a rest break after 14 hours of work. See you later, don't go anywhere ok

 

Will the Mexican doubles need them?

 

Yes, tow trucks are subject to hours of service. The bigger companies have enough work to have shifts, so for them no big deal. The little guys not so much. They are exempt from hos when responding to a police ordered tow but this interrupts their 10 hour so they technically have to start the 10 all over again.

The big city guys usually don't go far enough away to do a log but in my lical area and when I was out in New Mexico tows of several hundred miles were everyday occurrences so even our light duty drivers completed daily log books.

 

Friend of mine and I were headed south with border loads, a few years back. We passed three sets of these running convoy. I told him the big cash money we were making was going to dry up, because we couldn't compete with the Mexican 9-car we just passed.

 

There is no way that could be legal

 

All day, every day (well, seems to be at night a lot of times,) on I-35 and I-25 headed to the border from the various metro areas.

 

You see them all over the country headed for Texas. Seen 4 cars once and the Oklahoma bear just looked at them. I have seen them running 2 full size school buses tied together.

 

I can only imagine how much junk they had stuffed in those buses!

 

Do they hook those things up with an A frame to stop the "wiggle" factor??