The Best Reason to go ELD

What were you smoking at 4am when you wrote this?

 

Probably started typing it at 3am though

 

My paper log is legal but thanks all the same

 

Are you a salesman? For ELD Products or a government shill? @DustyRoad

 

How does eld keep somone from speeding 15 over... Actually perform a pretrip and fix tire and marker light issues. And be up to date on an annual inspection? It doesnt..

 

Paper forever. Until it's consumed.

The problem with ELD is that it's utterly preCISE in a world that will consider the Driver disposable.

The firings have to stop. Or the Industry has to improve on precision. Can you imagine stroke sensors by laser on each of the brake rods under the rig for example, some of which alert the driver to saying adjust me? Among a thousand other things that can get problems in inspection.

Maybe RFID will transmit a truck's 1000 different specs to a passing DOT man, he can pull over the one out of a whole herd of compliant trucks.

 

Electronic logs....paper logs....it makes no difference. The hours of service rules are the same. I am surprised that people still have conversations about Elogs almost a year after the mandate.

 

The one thing that sticks in my mind is a recent video probably from Lepton1 or Scottie67 showing a ELD clicking over to a new working day with 2 minutes remaining at local midnight to the previous day's remaining hours to drive while rolling down the interstate making miles and money.

I can imagine the time savings by not sitting in the desk at the sleeper doing paper work 2 hours a day. That was what I put my spouse to doing first week of her training while I drove solo. Once she learned paperwork, how the truck rode and generally absorbed the honeymoon so to speak around the USA she got right to work doing her team side of driving in training. But she took over the paperwork with the exception of paper logs for myself which I filled and signed. (Same as her own)

FFE had approximately 12 forms potentially to fill out on each load in addition to the usual macros for interchange and so on on the qualcomm. Eliminating paperwork and the associated lost time is a goal of mine.

HOWEVER. The ELD is way too precise for daily driving. Especially now if a DOT man can access the engine ECM and determine if you were crawling across a truckstop parking lot in gear while on your sleeper break.