Eld repeal, odds?

While I agree with you on the money talks portion. What I’m trying to say is the percent of o/o is a lot less then say 15 or 25 years ago. Which is sad. Also I do believe the megas would much rather pay a driver hourly instead of by the mile, and the ELDs help with that.

 

That’s a good question, I honestly couldn’t give you a answer. I’m a o/o and durning the summer I’m making over $100 a hr gross if I count the amount i make vs the time spent doing that run. That being said, let’s say a driver makes .60 cpm. Average speed is 50mph outside the city. So .60 x 50mph = 30. Kinda low in my opinion, but like I said I never been a driver.

 

While people might not be advancing a load at 5mph I can say from personal experience, fighting that dam clock I’ve done some stupid and reckless stuff. Worse one was burning my brakes coming down the grapevine. Learned my lesson and thank God no one was injured but I did ruin a brand new set of brakes. I know some people are for ELDs while other are against it. To debate this was not the purpose of this thread. I simply wanted to know what people’s thoughts where on the probability of it getting repealed with the new data. Like most said, sadly very unlikely.

 

While you do have a valid point, like I’ve mentioned before. I personally found myself speeding more just to beat that eld clock. I’ve also witnessed some really reckless actions taken by company drivers in newer truck so the probability of them racing to beat the clock is reasonable to assume. Does it justify the action or make it less wrong? Of course not, no excuse to drive recklessly. Does it happen, yes and I know it happened before the mandate. However I don’t believe it’s far fetch to assume that drivers are driving more careless and taking greater risks because they have less flexibility when it comes to their drive/on duty time. I’m not advocating for west coast turn arounds, and I know the fmcsa is looking into changing some laws to give drivers the option to use pc so they can make it to the closets safe place to do their 10hr reset. I think that’s great and needed without question, but to consider that the eld mandate is possibly responsible for the increase in cmv fatalities isn’t far fetched if you ask me.