My day on Elogs

Have you ever hauled livestock?

 

No, have you ever hauled a 14' wide 15' foot tall, 142' from the head lights to the tail lights long load into New Jersey? My point is that if you had "Legal" logs before why do you need an exemption now? If livestock haulers have to manipulate or reconfigure so much why haven't you all been asking for an exemption for as long as you have been hauling them? Why haven't livestock barns, big ranches, or slaughterhouses made big changes already? I can tell you why. Because it was easier to tear out a page and rewrite history. As long as it easier to do it that way that is what everyone did. The problem is now that page is written in stone and can't be torn out and thrown away. I have a lot of respect for you @Woreout. That being said, let's get to the brass tacks. Yes or no. Can you haul cattle with an elog? If not why not? I will end with one final statement. The reason everyone is so up in arms with this mandate isn't because of the over regulation of our industry, it is just another rule. The reason is because this one directly ####s with the cash flow.

 

The whole elog and hours of service laws as they are written now in the name of safety is a joke.
Anyone notice the literally thousands of trucks running around for the last few months with the white piece of paper taped to the windshield that says Fema load on it?
These trucks are all running around with the hos regulations all suspended for them.
But some how these trucks are all running out there safely and responsibly and not wrecking or killing anybody.
I think this most recent chain of disasters and the suspension of hos is a great opertunity for FMCSA to study and gather facts on the safety of drivers running under the hos rules vs the drivers running with suspended hos rules.
Then maybe they could write the hos rules with real data from real world numbers instead of special interest groups
demanding rules.

 

It is a race with that stop watch on the dash.

 

You are more clueless about hauling cattle than I am oversize. I'm not going to debate it with you. I belive HOS is the problem not how we log it. My point is they are living breathing animals. It just got under my skin that my crowd was singled out. We are not special by any means but what we do has to be done, in the most humane way possible.



When holding pens are built to rest the cattle off the wagon with water and feed available no matter the cost to use them as that will have to be passed on to the customer yes I will be able to haul them on an E-log till then no I can't.

 

I'll be honest, I know little more than helping load a couple of trucks and dropping the chute door, (AND don't stand near the side of the truck!!!) so I will ask, Don't "most" cattle loads run under 650 miles from field to feedlot or feedlot to proceeding plant?

Again, just asking, I don't know,,,,,,,,,,,,,