Whoever installed elogs. Do you like them?

That would be an awful lot of data to sift through.

 

Not really, if they required it in the same format, it could all be computerized... issuing citations and everything!

 

Only time elogs are a real problem, is when you have 5 minutes left to get to your stop 10 minutes away. No fudge factor.

 

Or you have 2 hrs to get home and 1 hour left on your 70 week. Take a 34 hour break one hour from home?

 

Omnitracs. I use the mobile XRS platform that uses bluetooth on my smartphone to connect to the relay on the truck. So if you don't have a smartphone, there's an added expense to get one. They also have hardware you can use, but I didn't get a price on that.

If you're not under load, would personal conveyance work? If that happened to me, I'd just chalk it up to a once in a blue moon moment. If it happened often, I'd rethink how I do trip planning.

 

I'll gladly take the log violation, if that's what it takes for me to get home. Only done that twice in the last year, tho. Once was because dispatch can't math, and wouldn't have me home in time for military duty. The other, I went over by 20 minutes, with no place to stop.

 

All I hear as I read these posts is "I don't have to do paperwork" "My dispatcher can't make me do that anymore" "It's so easy". Sounds like a bunch of steering wheel holders.

 

Can you believe people actually use forklifts now instead of pallet jacks, too? So crazy what this industry has come to.

 

I wonder what happened to all the talk of how much more money we were all going to make when "everyone" had to have these. Remember also shippers and receivers were going to magically not keep anyone beyond a respectable time either just because there is an eld in the truck. At least this was the arguement I heard when this was all still up in the air and could have used all the resistance possible before becoming the rule it is today. Just more spineless wonders I guess wanting gov regulation to stand up where they cant or won't.