Any eLog Tricks?

What kind of an owner do you work for?

YOU have a choice to take your time and do things right otherwise you are an employee of the owner if he is telling you what your time limits are - remember you are not there to just move freight but to use your skills to move it safely and within the law.



Most of the time it took me 30 minutes from the time I agreed to the load to the time I was pulling out and if I needed fuel because I sat for a day or so, I would fuel before I left. I've had dispatchers and agents call me up and scream at me because I wasn't moving and I explained to them I'm getting ready to follow the laws.

You're making it too complex and hard. You have a lot more time than 15 minutes. you still have a pre-trip to do which you should allow 15 minutes for and route planning is done in 10 minutes. Dispatch can and does adjust the pickup and delivery times all the time for people, maybe you need to talk to them a bit more.

As for moves, call your safety department, ask them how to move without effecting your times and if they are nice to you they can edit the entry.

What?

Seriously that doesn't matter, you are the driver and you are part of the system so if an O/O gets it, then you do - no difference.

 

one trick would be to just unplug the thing from the ecm plug.

the problem with trying to hide your movements. is it triggers an alert for mileage and fuel discrepancy. least, ours did.

 

Not really a lot of tricks and thats how they want it.You can go into pretrip and go grab a trailer in your lot. OR go on postrip when you get back and have time to get rid of your trailer in the yard so your not burning more drive hours.Dont go over about a half mile or itll pop back to drive status.

 

yup here is one open up your fuse panel and disconnect the thing, or go off duty personal use, flag events still are flag events elog or no elog.

 

With people net, I log off completely when bobtailiing to the motel. As in, driver - log off.

When in the yard, I'm in sleeper, but can't move more than about 2 miles without it forcing me into drive. Allows me to hook up and per trip without chewing up on duty time.

Hope that helps.

 

They all do and some companies will terminate leases for this.

 

Many companies do not allow the company truck to use "line 5" as everyone calls it. But, allow the O/O to use it. After all, it is their truck versus the O/O's truck and fuel.

I would love to see your reasoning or law to support your ridiculous claim.

 

There is something we used do in Europe but be warned: they are now regarding it in Europe as FRAUD so carries a jail term , I don't know how the law regards it in NA.... It's very simple, you get a strong magnet like on the base of a cb Ariel , stick it to the gearbox where the sender unit is sticking out of it, that puts it to 'sleep' the head can't read the speed properly so records no movement, it records as rest

 

Unfortunately everybody will be doing it soon..

 

Same thing with our company. O/O's get line 5, but company drivers do not.