Company transferring to Elogs, does this affect my hours?

Lmao

 

Yep, only keep an honest person out.

 

I think the short answer is "it depends".
Depends on lots of variables

• Type hauling you do
• Do you often have to wait for dispatch
• How well your typical reload coordinates with your unload (how good are your office people?)
• How wide the geographic area is
• Your shippers
• Your receivers
• Your fleet size (can you repower or be repowered)
• How you log on paper today
• Your preferred driving style
• How the eLogs are provisioned. (What you can and can not get away with)
• And on and on

For some, it's easy, for others it will hurt. There may probably be an adjustment and learning phase.

 

It is easier for the driver and requires almost no work. Downside is that you can't run illegal. You have to plan so much more, because you can't just drive an extra hour and fudge the logs if a truck stop doesn't have parking. I have 3 different places to stop planed out before I roll off of my 30 minutes break.

 

The upside is you can't run illegally.

To the OP, if your trainer is asking, get another trainer.

 

Also, eLogs work to keep everybody honest. The driver and the dispatcher or planner. They see what you see. No guessing or making "assumptions".

No more addition and carrying over numbers and wondering if you made a clerical error.

But yes there are the obvious downsides but these can be managed.

Learn how to work within the system and learn how to "make the eLog work for you".

 

Bingo!

 

No, they don't. They only show that you are in violation of 8, 11, 14 and 70. You can falsify them too.

Drivers here and dispatchers will tell you to turn it to sleeper when you are at a shipper or receiver. Just put 15 minutes on duty, not driving, then the rest sleeper. Well if you have to be on the dock, the elogs doesn't know, but that time needs to be logged as on duty not driving.

You can get to a shipper or receiver near midnight, they open at 7, and take an hour to unload. You don't switch to on duty until your 10 hours are up, and again, show 30 minutes for unloading and or I, and then go on your merry way, even though your 10 hours were interrupted at 7.

Do you want me to go on, or do you still want to call me a scoff law because I want to have that 7 1/2 minutes of rounding and I don't want to spend $25 a month when I can get a log book, and i dont want to give up my 4th amendment rights and allow the government to be able to track my every movement?

 

Running elogs will short your paycheck by about $150 bucks a week. The good news is that when elogs are nationwide, rates will go up and our paychecks should go up by about $300 a week. So in the end we will gain with elogs.