Editable ELD

People keep talking about eld's but it's not only the eld's that will have you parking on the shoulder or in places you aren't supposed to be, it's the shippers and receivers as well, we only get 3 hours of on duty time, which doesn't affect our drive time once those hours are up guess what our drive time hours are getting ate up by the shipper or receiver

 

It's not just the shipper and receiver.

Think about all the incidents that can happen to mess up your perfectly planned trip.

EXAMPLE

Last week the freeway was closed in both directions. Not just one direction because of an accident. BOTH directions. Because of a lunatic with a gun. Think of all the traffic having to detour off the freeway. Take a secondary route full of traffic lights for 10 miles to get back on the freeway.

And this was 8 at night. Imagine the delay if it would have happened during rush hour traffic.

That's just one example.

 

Exactly.

 

Any AOBRD SYSTEM WILL WORK

 

I agree

 

For what it's worth, there is a small wiggle in this example. You can drive up to an additional 2 hours over your 11 if this happens (as long as you don't go over your 14) with the adverse conditions exemption. To claim it, keep driving after the 11 even though the ELD will show a violation and use the "remarks" box to note that you were driving under the 395.2 adverse exemption.

I know that it is not a silver bullet - but many drivers don't know about it (or how to claim it) so I thought I'd mention it with your example.

 

That ONLY applies if a weather (or other) event occurs that was NOT forecasted at the time of your dispatch. If they were calling for a blizzard and then you got caught up in it, you've still only got 11 hours to drive. As to whether or not it would apply to the situation described by @snowwy is going to depend upon the occifer and HIS interpretation of whether or not that incident meets the "unusual road and traffic conditions" clause...and if he hadn't heard about the incident, you'd better be able to find a link to the news story about it.

 

You are correct. It has to be an unpredictable reason.

"Lunatic with a gun closing both side of the highway" is one that I would go ahead and argue with an officer if it screwed my load bad enough.

 

Well, now, that all depends upon where you're at. Hell, try convincing a cop that you were expecting to breeze through crashville without being delayed by a wreck. If a certain area is just crawling with looney tunes, is it really unpredictable that one might cause a delay?

But yeah, I'd be arguing that point, too, if I got caught up in it and wouldn't make it home otherwise.

 

Wouldn't be too hard to argue with the cop.

It was in the news.

Man taken into custody, freeway reopened following hours-long closure in Clearfield