Company transferring to Elogs, does this affect my hours?

Bingo X2.

If you run your logbook legal now, and I mean legal and not "look legal", you won't be loosing anything.

You can gain a few minutes at fueling or at the shipper/receiver. On paper you show 15 minutes, on e-logs, it shows what it takes. Those gains are marginal.

With the introduction of e-logs, it's a change of the way how the duties are recorded. There is NO change in the regulations.

There is more planning involved, that's right. If you run and wait until your time is over and need a parking spot NOW, you don't have one but two problems.
1st, you're in a violation now
2nd, you have a lack of planning.

At least the way my Qualcomm does, I get a warning one hour, 30 minutes and 15 minutes before my time is over and a red light starts flashing. It relates to 8-11-14-70 hour limits.

Yes it's true, you may have to give up one hour of driving time, because the next parking spot is three minutes past the point where your clock runs out.

For planning my stops, I'm using The Truckers Path on the phone. Quite good info.
And this is also to ask those driver who use this app already, please stay honest with the info you share on the app. I've read some posts here on TTR that some drivers falsify the info to get a spot. We are all in the same boat (soon).

I still prefer customers with FCFS. But booked appointments do help in this case, as long as both parties, driver AND shipper stick to their agreement.

 

I hear ya
But you gave up your rights when you got a CDL

 

Dafuq????

 

I did not say there were not ways to make them work to your advantage. But the point is, if they show you only have 25 hours coming over the next 3 days but they attempt to put a load that needs 30 hours at the end of the third day, there is no questioning the hours and the fact the appointment can not be made. Yes, edits can [somehow] be made in office of drive time, but this happens rarely and only to cover up 2-5 minutes over. The carriers who will make egregious edits are far and few between and should not be used to say they all do this.

I can't "falsify" anything other then if I want to. I have never been asked to "play fast and loose with the rules". Whatever I may do to help me make a better pay check and not sit for a day because of a missed appointment is on me. And the amount of "falsification" I can do is very limited. Yes, I sometimes have to "work" during my breaks sometimes. I'm in the reefer business. If I don't, I'll starve some weeks. 95% of our pickups and deliveries are on appointment so it requires proper planning and an occasional "working the system" to make it all happen, all month long.

But I would not ever want to go back to paper. eLogs is not the end of the world. I see far more advantages to them than I do disadvantages. But maybe that's because of where I work and the type hauls I typically do.

 

Been curious this entire time whenever someone says you are giving up your 4th amendment rights as to how?

Elogs will automatically record location with change of duty status.

How is that reporting to the government except in any instance of a road side or audit by the fmcsa? Doesn't the logs stay with whomever is the record keeper for your company; be it single truck or mega?