The Best Reason to go ELD

So tell me how the ELD would stop him from doing 15 over with a required safety light not working with a flat and an expired annual inspection.


From the list the guy dont give a #### bout his job. The paper didn't get him being lazy did. ELD really doesn't have anything to do with it.

Truth be told it was the 15 over that got him popped not random selection

 

So I'm a driver who just started his new 70hr ELD after being home for 3 days.

I start my 14hr clock do pretrip and drive to the shipper load that is 20 miles away.

I check in and have to wait 6hrs just to get a door. Then another 10hr for them to load me. (waiting on a truck that is late who has 3 of my pallets)
The shipper doesn't allow me to sleep, he wants me in my driver's seat waiting so I can pull my truck out when I'm loaded.
How is ELD gonna help me be more safe.

I'm now exhausted I've driven less then 20 miles. My 14hr clock was started so I could get to shipper.

Now is it my job to falsify my ELD and say I was in sleeper birth for 10 and up for 5? Or do I burn my 14hr clock, then try and get out of the dock to go sleep for 10hrs before I drive this load?


How is the computer gonna solve this

 

A computer only has the ability the programmer gives it...which is limited by the lesser of his understanding of the subject dealt with by the software AND his ability to transfer that understanding into code. How many DRIVERS do you know that don't understand the HOS or how they work despite working under them every day? And you expect some pencil necked geek who has never driven anything bigger than a Prius to program those HOS into the ELD? A knowledgeable PROFESSIONAL who knows the HOS inside and out can run circles around any ELD for that reason alone. Sure, the ELD might have the basics covered, but like the DOT, they don't have a comprehensive working knowledge of the entire set of rules you may be playing under. They have a basic, "general use" understanding and that's it. At least the DOT will look it up if they're unfamiliar with an exemption or exception you're claiming. ELD's just flag you as being in violation.

 

You log at as On-Duty. Once loaded you drive to first safe place to park and enjoy your 10 hours off. You can get a shower and sleep since you have been working all day.

Hopefully you get paid detention pay. So you have been making money all day waiting to get loaded. Maybe you got a great rate per mile to cover the day of not driving. So your still making money. The ELD will protect you when they ask how come the load is late. You can tell or show them how the shipper did not care about shipping the load on time and it not you fault. So you still get paid, you still get to sleep. All thanks to the ELD

 

They can totally access the ECM. I have had an inspection in which I crawled just about every day. The DOT is not dumb by a long shot. They know drivers are going to take logging short cuts, much like when paper logs existed. He looked at my elog and told me they looked good. I always try to keep a good attitude during inspection so they won't notice some of those shortcuts

 

Speed limit and Arizona’s 75, if he was doing 15 over I guess he was in a big hurry!