FACT::: ELD's will make you a safer driver.

Exactly. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.

Next we'll hear how proper trip planning would have avoided the situation. LMFAO!!!

 

Anti-coersion laws prohibit them from requiring you to drive beyond what is allowable in the HOS. If a wreck happens 1/4 mile ahead of you and blocks the road with 5 hours remaining on your clock, there isn't a reasonable person out there that will say "You should've shut down at that last exit 10 miles back." If it takes 7 hours to clear the wreck and reopen the road, you're at hour 16...illegal to drive under ANY circumstance. In other words, you either shut down or drive illegally. Notify the company of the situation. Then, if the company demands that you drive in violation of the HOS or fires you for refusing, you follow the steps provided here:
Coercion

 

to my knowledge it's illegal to stop on an interstate sans emergency. move the truck, leave a remark.

 

Psychological affect that you are all missing, saw it first hand in the oil fields in ND. They put eLogs, PeopleNet in our trucks, all of the sudden guys that never went in the ditch were going in the ditch, and then we had a fatality. The accidents and incidents went through the roof. They took the eLogs out of the truck and went to time cards. Everything settled down, fewer incidents and happier drivers. Witnessed it first hand, and even got caught up in it. That clock will even make the sane, INSANE. Been there, done that.

 

How much of the reasons the mega carriers went with elds is because ,
Their average recruits experience with a semi truck is playing with their Optimus prime toy a few years prior ?
Or it's almost impossible to teach a recruit to fill out a log book properly when they can't read or write English .
That magic box solves both problems , just hit this button , press that pedal and we will tell you the rest as you go

 

No, you see Rosie O'Donnell for that!

 

Which is perfectly fine if they wanted to make that business decision in order to allow for incompetent employees. What I object to is that business decision being forced upon the entire industry, thereby allowing the incompetence to spread beyond the megas.

 

I don't think you are correct. For example, I had a trailer tire blow out on I-80 west of Laramie with less than an hour on my 14. By the time road service installed a spare I was over my 14. I drove to the Elk Mountain rest area under "adverse conditions" to get to a safe place to park for my 10.

There's no going reason why any trucker would take a 10 on the shoulder of a freeway.

 

I bet a lot of the trucks that parked on that shoulder were on paper logs,