What the ELD mandate has taught me so far

So you only drive a truck TWO WEEKS A YEAR and you are complaining about elogs and how it will destroy you're life.
Either you're a troll or you just aren't cut out to be a truck driver.
Stay in your little shop and let the car hauling to the professional drivers.

 

Something that hasn't been addressed. If you do any work at all in your othet business for the previous 8 days to stepping into the truck, that time must be logged on duty in order to be compliant. I'm betting you don't currently do that. Pretty much makes your complaints of running out of hours 100 miles short of your shop seem silly.

 

A professional follows all rules and regulations. Not just the ones that suit them. No professional plumber or electrician will cut corners and violate building code. Ay least not one that i would want working on my property.

 

If your logs are as perfectly legal as you are claiming then why are you complaining about elogs?

 

One good thing to come of the mandate is soon we will all be in the same boat. Maybe just maybe the outcry will be loud enough to get some sensible, safe, yet flexible rules in place. For the past three years we have all argued about Eld or no Eld when it seems to me it was the perfect time to conceed the fact that the future is here, paper makes no sense in today's world, and instead fight for some changes in the HOS regulations. But here I sit smoking cigarettes, typing on my phone on a 30 min break 15 minutes from the receiver. Even our good friends to the North in Canada are laughing at us.

 

I've said that same thing many times. But the culture of fudging log books runs so deep that drivers can't see the difference between making it look legal in paper and actually being legal.