Do you feel elogs should be mandatory or optional?

See and this is one reason why they Can't force them upon everybody. You can not tell people with older trucks to scrap them and go buy newer. They can not be mandated for new trucks but not required for older ones. If they only mandate them for company's that have proven they can not control thier drivers or dispatchers then okay but the last I heard they WERE TRYING TO MANDATE THEM UPON EVERYONE? And if this is the case then they can't force people to update their trucks. Just what I am thinkin... But along with you I guess I am wrong sometimes....

 

If you say so.

 

That's why there will never be one in my truck. I will NEVER let that 2 hours make me 1/2 hour late to unload and cost be a whole day. In LA LA land the 10 hr rule works but not in Realville. I 100% support the 70 hr rule and the 11 hour rule and the 14 hr rule but not a 14 hr "window" rule. I would be more unsafe with an electronic logging device in my truck. Everyone of my customers knows that if they want a load delivered in the morning 600 miles away, they better have it on my truck by noon the day before because my body is on a clock and shuts down at midnight PERIOD.

 

Once upon a time when the world was young, there were no roads.
Then the gods said 'let there be roads' and it was good.
Then the gods said 'I am unhappy, my roads are missing something... vehicles. And it was good'.
Then man came along and began driving the vehicles on the roads and things began to goto hell because he didnt have the sense to self-regulate effectively, and the gods said 'It's time do something about it' and thus the road to mandatory EOBR's were started. And it was good.
Why? Because there were too many people driving illegally... Rules are 'mostly' there for a reason, and sometimes it's to keep the dummies from doing REALLY DUMB stuff.
Mainly it'll keep people from doing things that are 'too dumb' because we're afraid of the consequences of what happens if we get caught.

-The EOBRs 'hopefully' make our driving playing-field more transparent for accountability.
-And yes there's the potential for abuse blah blah blah... EOBR's are coming.

 

: sarcasm: sure and while they are at it why not regulate the number of pieces of TP can be used for #1 and #2! : end sarcasm:


Short Answer: NO!

I'm for less GUVMNT NOT more!!

My company is supposedly going to Elogs across the board and I dont care because I run legal actually I hate doing the paper log so I'm happy. The GUVMNT has no business having access to my GPS location.

 

Yep, 100% deductible.

 

You buy them because the Government mandates that you must have them to operate. The proposed reg does not mandate who you buy the system from, just that you buy one that meets specs.
There are Government mandates on tires, just ask the manufacturers. They are not allowed to sell you tires that do not meet Government specs.
There are Government regs on the tires we run, also. Read the regs, in them you will find a mandate that prevents us from running regrooved tires on the steer axle of a truck and recapped tires on the steer axle of a passenger bus.

 

As to ABS, lap belts, etc, older vehicles were grandfathered in. However, there is no existing law that states that older vehicles must be grandfathered. It is strictly a choice of the regulators.