ELD makes drivers speed to beat the clock?

Well then you are the 1% that does not deal with the constant battle between , drivers, dispatchers,planners, and truck owner.

 

I will agree with that statement.

 

Every single professional driver deals with those things you listed.

 

Not really when you own your own truck or lease one, and book your own loads.

 

I must be incredibly lucky, because my company schedules things logically, understands that weather and traffic snafus happen, and works with us drivers to get the job done with a minimum of hassle.

 

I thank you Comrade..

 

Truck owners don’t answer to customers?

 

ELD Adoption Fails to Reduce Truck Accidents, Study Says

ELDs were supposed to reduce driver fatigue and make roads safer, but a recent report suggests that any benefits may have been offset by an increase in unsafe driving behaviors.

Alex Scott, assistant professor of supply chain management at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, led a team that evaluated inspection and crash data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and found that widespread adoption of ELDs in the trucking industry has so far had no measurable impact on the number of accidents...

...While accident rates appear unchanged, the report says, unsafe driving behaviors such as speeding appear to have increased over the same period of time. These unsafe driving behaviors were found to be in response to productivity losses caused by the mandate.

“Our data suggests that unsafe driving infractions for small carriers and independent owner-operators increased relative to large asset-based carriers after the mandate was implemented, thus suggesting a potential mechanism for the lack of a decrease in accidents.”

According to the report, unsafe driving violations by owner-operators increased by as much as 33.3%, and speeding increased by as much as 31%...
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Interesting but quite possibly a short lived trend as people get used to the new reality. Curious to see if the numbers go back to normal now that most have adjusted.

 

I'd like to see the evidence that elog brought up driver pay across the board. Yet I have not found such evidence. There is a post in this forum about 60 cents being the new normal. Yet it's list is very sorted but there are some 1099 jobs paying that.

 

Drivers used to finesse their time on the paper logbook to get more miles, therefore dollars for the week/month/quarter/year. With ELD there is no more chance to finesse time so the only other alternative to get more miles/money is to speed to get maximum efficiency out of the 60/70 hours clock.