am i screwed on my 34?

I have purchased my KT before deadline and using it as aobrd...

 

Ok, that explains it, Not an ELD.

 

I have the Transflo ELD

 

I'm gonna drive like I got my 70 back. I'm 54 yrs old, been doing this LEGALLY for the past 26 years, and really don't need an electronic babysitter. the company can pull up the GPS coordinates, and see that I didn't go further than 3 miles from the truckstop. I was at the TA in Sweetwater, TX at the 142mm, Wally world at the 144. I'm gonna drive, and if they don't like it, maybe its time for me to find something different and leave it to the Addias/tracksuit crowd

 

That's what I have so I'm pretty familiar with how it works....It also will help any badge to see on the log that you went PC over to WM. So that shows you were intending to be and were under PC for the return trip.Put lots of annotations on the log to note that.

 

Its the 242 there. I run that area too. I'm in the TA in Sweetwater a lot. You are just gonna have violation on top of violations because your available hours are going to be 0 since the ELD is not going to give you your reset.....Maybe I'll see you over there someday. I'm an old timer too, 65 yr. old this year, got my CDL as soon as I was old enough. Guess that was over 45 years ago. How time flies when your havin' a good time!

 

I got it. Claim a malfunction and break out the Loose Leafs. Run paper till you can get the reset. Log out of the eld and pull the power on it. It malfunctioned.....

 

The drive line cannot be "shortened" in ELD mode. And even if you are in AOBRD mode, you had better have the reasoning straight for all edits if a audit pops.

With that said, I have edited the drive line in the following 3 ways (legally.) None of them "shorten it" though.

a) Driver A and Driver B did not switch from the "Active" to the "Inactive" driver positions in a team situation. The drive time went against the wrong driver and had to be attributed to the other driver later with a drive line edit.

b) Driver took his truck to the mechanic and they loaned him a service van to go eat. They drove his truck while he was out and it put the duty time and the drive time against him when it went over 5 MPH. Edited the drive line to say "mechanic" and took away that drive time and duty time from the driver later on.

c) Driver bob-tailed to the doctor (this was just today actually.) He thinks he may have this super-flu thing going around. He dropped the trailer and went to urgent care. They had him there over 3 hours. The company has the PC option turned off by default. So his log showed on-duty "drive" time to the doctor and (thru his own fault because he is sick) he was "on-duty, not driving" the entire time he was at the doc because he did not switch himself to "off duty." The fix was to edit the drive line to "PC" and the time at the doc to "OFF-duty."

 

They can change driving time. I've had a company do that before so I could make the last 5 minutes to the customer. Whether they will or not, whether they'll claim they can't, is a whole different story.

 

The DRIVER cannot edit drive time. The designated system administrators can.