One advantage of the new law is at least they'll start making devices using modern hardware, now that they have to sell devices directly to drivers, instead of using leftover 1970s computer chips and vacuum tubes that take 10 minutes to warm up, which they could get away with when it was just one giant company selling to another giant company, neither of which gave a carp about wasting a driver's life.
Eliminate the FMCSA ELD mandate
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Alex1990, Sep 25, 2017.
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any "Illusion" that may wander through our heads is just a cover up to make everyone Think it'll be a game changing ordeal,It Won't For Shippers/receivers- Business as usual.
what It Will Hurt is Us......
there's going to be a lot of..............
1. "Man, I have to wait until tomorrow now to deliver this..Its Messing up my week" Throw in a few cuss words
2."I'm not stopping 2 hours from home because I'm out of hours"
3. "My Log didn't allow me to make my apt" "Well,You'll have to reschedule for another day" I Can't afford to wait until tomorrow to deliver" "Who said tomorrow- We don't have any openings until Thursday" driver explodes and pulls out Shotgun
4. Customer calling broker/carrier's office looking for delivery- "Where's the driver at?" "I don't know,Let me call him" Broker to Driver- "Customer is wanting to know where your at"- Driver"For Chrissakes,Leave me alone.This E-log isn't allowing me to service this customer like I Want"
You Folks think Im Joking here...You wait and See What the added stress of this E-log is going to do to the driver- Won't effect nobody else,Except the pockets of Freight Brokers charging Late Fees.
which of course is never in Discussion- Just keep being SheepSnailexpress, Cybercat, win-some-loose-less and 3 others Thank this. -
I differ from nax because the only way I can see shippers and carriers actually change anything is with the lack of easy to get cheap trucks, and this is where those who can't handle working under a different form of logging will be out of the industry and more demand for trucks which means we can start seeing serious increases in rates like where they should be - $2.50 at the bottom, not 98 cents. -
As an intermodal O/O who gets stuck in the ports daily, I just wish the 14 hour rule was increased to 16. It would make the mandate more palatable.
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I'm Personally Disgusted and Sick of the way Folks Don't Stand up for anything anymore.
As For the Farmers--Ha- and Where did that go?
I Can only do so much myself- I QUESTION things if they don't make sense
I operate within common Sense
I Make myself Visible in all aspects of transportation-
If I Feel a Customer or Brokerage is Playing around- I Let them Know about it.
If I Feel My Insurance company adjusts my premium Without Sensible reasoning- They'll get an earful
If I See careless driving on the Road- I'll walk up to you and Pull you by the earlobe like a misbehaving child and explain why you "Don't do that"
If my Kids were misbehaving growing up- Me or My Wife would Wear the Rear Ends out like there was No Tomorrow- I Have The Greatest Children that are grown now a person could ask for
5. Basically,If Things don't make "Common sense" I say something... but there aren't enough in this society anymore That do this. Therefore, Groups like the FMCSA ATA Special interest groups and insurance companies dictate what they want.Last edited: Sep 26, 2017
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Yeah. What Mr. Ed said. I don't support any of that crap. I also know we don't have the same kind of resources, as do some noisy groups, to hire paid protesters nor to overwhelm our representatives with lobbyists. I am a lifetime OOIDA member and they are putting up a good fight but it is an uphill battle.
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