First week on eld

I remember hearing about a wasting fuel ticket in Montana also , but I never got one , just hearsay

 

Traveling through Nevada in those days on the two lanes we would let a 4 wheeler pass and then hang behind a half mile or so and listen to the bird dog. Every once in awhile an oncoming bear would miss the car but get us. It was kind of a fun game that the officers enjoyed as well, and the stakes weren't bad for losing. This was before CDLs, and DAC (whatever that is), and random drug testing, and electronically controlled engines. It kept us alert better than any ELD!

 

c'mon now Brandt. at least man up and use DEF/particulate filters instead of antilock brakes in your example....i don't recall anyone being forced to retro-fit anti locks onto their truck to go into certain states....

 

My point was nobody is complaining about the cost of anti lock brakes today. Just like ELDs are no big deal. If people are claiming to run legal then ELDs are not a big deal. It can't be the cost because they are so cheap.

 

oh i agree,the cost is a non issue to me and we all know how supportive of this BS i am.

and there is no HOS scenario that i crap in my truck.

 

If I let my cost be increased 5 dollars today then that opens the door for 50 dollars tomorrow. 500 the day after that. At what point do you say enough?
What about trickle down cost of this whole deal, paid parking etc? I don't think it will last long but it might. That said what good is a rate increase if my bottom line increases with it or worse even more? There are so many variables that non truck owning E-log proponents do not see or care to see because it doesn't affect them. Yet they wish to tell the ones that own trucks how to run their business when they have none.

Am I the only one that remembers all the hype of the California emissions bull crap? How rates were gonna have to go up if new equipment and higher expenses were involved to run that market?

I have failed to see that increase yet I feel this will be no different.

 

I'm not indoctrinated in any way shape or form.
I'm also not a cheerleader for'em either.

Matter of fact I've never taken a sip of company or industry koolaid.
I simply asked you a question and you can't seem to explain your statment that the mandate is a an encroaching law.
I'm starting to think you just heard / read someone else saying it and thought it sounded good so you just jumped on the encroachment bandwagon.
And in my post that you quoted its a also a question not an accusation.

 

Right ,so you actually can't explain how the ELD mandate is an encroaching law.

 

yeah, we will see how ####y you are when everything you buy costs more