Drivers On E-Logs Fighting Their 14 Hours!!!

Last night approx 8PM I learned that Arkansas NWS Noaa has issued from the Little Rock Office a StateWide Black Ice warning. Which pretty much fell on deaf ears. You cannot tell Arkansans what to do in drive or not to drive. You cannot tell them that.

You cannot tell 1000 trucks to stay in memphis or in Hope or Russelville and wait to tomorrow. All of them are going to ROLL ice or no ice be ######.

And so, here we are all night vehicles slid off bridges up and down everywhere even in my area. Whiff right off the bridge they went, fancy 4x4 and all. THUMP knock em down a ego peg. Plus a few dollars in tow.

Eventually I-40 got all effed up like it ALWAYS done for the last 50 years between Lonoke and Memphis. Closed. And so on.

What IS NEW about all this is the truckers going to sleep right there inside the interstate travel lanes, hammer lane etc. Maybe the nice Policeman will spend half of this morning waking them all up. Bunch of sleepy heads.

How stupid must a trucker be to go to sleep in the bunk with the 18 wheeler PHYSICALLY ON THE INTERSTATE.

HOW DUMB. Ims orry they are tired. Im sorry they ran out of coffee Im sorry the ELD says TIME TO SLEEP. NO DRIVING. STOP STOP STOP. DING!

HOW stupid. It's disgusting me to no end as a professional who has BEEN IN PILEUPS. JAMS that last all day and witnessed many things that is part of trucking while sitting still stuck in with 10,000 other new friends going Zero mph. But I did not go to bed inside the stupid interstate hightway, Im not that stupid.

Should I evolve this rant into something else? Are we truly that collectively lost as a Trucking Industry because little boys and girls get a little sleepy and go beddy bye with State Police to wake them up in the morning.

What kind of stupidity is this? Black Ice + Warnings + People sliding off everyone + truckers NOT stopping outside of the ice zone and being safe + sleeping inside a closed I-40 because everyone thinks to keep going until ELD says stop.

= what? A big hot stinking mess. What have we become. Not professonal truckers. The Government has shown to be ineffectual. And the Technology sweetly makes a poison over everything due to a litttle bit of weather.

Should I blame the Dispatcher and Companies for making a enforcement against anyone not moving at a fleet qouta daily of 65 mph average all the time all day all night? Run late, call me. Maybe get fired.

We had paper logs since the 20's until after 9-11 No one slept on interstates like we do now.

Dare I say we are not the truckers we were once? We are children too tired to be truckers and depend on Mr Nice State Policeman to wake me up after I am sleepy inside the hammer lane of the icy interstate.

That makes me want to throw up.

 

I remember one more thing.

Growing up. America used to work early in the morning. Say 6 AM so people can get gas to be at work at 8 am. Work all day to about 7 PM. Excepting nice resturants that cook good meals and dance halls into the night, EVERYONE WENT HOME (OR went out to eat) in the early EVENING. LIGHTS OUT across ALL AMERICA by 8PM.

Maybe we should start doing that. Just do day time trucking. When the little bit of snow, ice, rain or wahtever. Stop everything. Layround in bed all and all night with pay. Let the dispatchers scream yer late. ELD's have nothing to violate anymore because it's impossible to work more than a 50 hour week.

 

We have PC for these things, which was just redesigned for this purpose.
Elogs are never going away.

 

#### right in the road? You could have at least parked on the shoulder. Or was the traffic a comeplete standstill for hours? Either way if it were me #### the eld I would have been on that wheel atleast until I can pull over to the next exit and find a safe spot.

 

Yes traffic was a complete stop. No place to put anything.

Arkansas ran a pretty good segment and article on it. I think only now I-40 is moving again. Because the temperature were above freezing and everything snow and ice vanished by dinner time yesterday.

The good news is we are getting close to 70 for highs next three weeks.

 

Drivers are not moving because a violation of their ELog can be costly. We don't make the rules. Drivers could hang a sign in their window regarding their estimated time of returning to duty.

 

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With weather and road conditions apps there's really no excuse for it. I would have shut down in OK or TN long before I got to AR.

 

The headline of this story should read “Winter storm shuts down I-40, forces drivers to sleep in vehicles”

This has absolutely nothing to do with E-Logs or the 14 hour clock. The article says the interstate was shut down for over 10 hours. If a driver had already been running all day then it’s not unreasonable for him/her to go to sleep. You can’t expect someone to stay awake for an indefinite amount of time due to circumstances beyond their control. Knock on doors, wake people up, and go on about your day.

Sensational headlines from a corrupt media strike again. Ugh

 

Also, @mjd4277 can you please point to where in the news story the HOS or ELDs are mentioned? I read it twice and I can’t seem to find it anywhere. Is there a survey available showing how many of the sleeping drivers are on paper logs vs how many are on electronic?

I’ve heard that technology is getting pretty advanced, but I wasn’t aware that your truck could slam on the brakes, flip you back into the bunk, lock you in there, and pump sleeping gas into the truck until your 10 hour break was up. That must not have been an option on my 2017 Cascadia with an ELD.