I was wrong. E-logs save lives

While it is certainly outlandish to say that Greg would be awarded $27 million, I've made a lot of DUI arrests, worked plenty of DUI accidents that included search warrants for blood draw and fatalities. No one would take the drunk driver's case with the toxicology report from the crime lab.

Back to the ridiculous scenarios Greg might find himself in.

 

My wife said it will most likely get overturned on appeal. She sees jury award cases all the time and they overturn and send them back down. Plus Werner has the money to pay the attorneys to starve them out, then settle for much much less to be done with it.

 

"Force" no, it's just a time clock, but... if your 70 runs out at 6pm, 2 hrs from your drop, which is 10 munites from your home, what do you do?
Sit til midnight to get your recap and go. So at 230 am you arrive home tired. Delivery done and only 2 hours late. .., when you could have just been home at 830 pm. Feet up. Happens to me EVERY week now. It's how my run works out. Before elog I was home at 830. The HOS needs to be adjusted to make stupidity like that go away. Needs to be flexible if the time constraints are going to be hard.
That's what elog did to me.
Yes I'm REAL tired when I get home. Yes I hate elog.

 

One of us is confused

No. What you hate is being forced into compliance. Sounds like your problem is with the HOS rules. Focus your energy in the right places maybe we can all fight for meaningful change. Blaming elogs only serves to support their existence.

 

Unfortunately the morons who invented this #### have never driven a truck and really just don't care about our welfare as drivers. Any idiot can see that I'm more tired and midnight than just carrying on and finishing my day.
So... before they brought in the ankle bracelets they should have made some provisions for just this kind of stuff .
If not, people will drive faster, take more chances to not be short that 2 hours. I did for a bit but I'm just not comfortable "driving like I stole it" so I slowed back down, lose a night at home and get home tired. Most will just keep their foot to the floor for the previous 7 days and drive like an idiot. I see it. Speeds and impatience on the roads by truck drivers is way up since they brought these things into play. It's undebatable. And unsafe. Blame HOS if you like, but the elogs unflexability made it what it is.
I'm looking for a good pre 2000 truck.