E-log vs time clock

Hey all. Was wondering about something.

My employer pays us off of a time clock but we have ELD in the trucks. The issue is they never match. Lot of slip seating, yard work, shop time, while not logged into ELD. Today I have 12 hours before 70 on my time clock but ELD says 16 available. Problem, company expects us to go by what the ELD says but if I were in an accident or something they would pull the time clock too, right? It gets a lot worse. According to time clock I've worked a 15 hour day, and a 17 hour day, but by only using the ELD in the vehicle when it was actually rolling down the road everything looks fine, as far as employer cares, because ELD looks legal.

 

I tried bringing it up with head safety man, he came down hard on my boss, who then came down hard on me. Things changed for a week and right back to square one, only I'm not going to risk opening my mouth again...just quietly find another job. I haven't had a week in months that I've run legal. Money good, job not bad, but going to get bit in the ### and lose my license if I push it.

I was pretty sure they'd pull time clocks. And if they did....whoa.

 

Defiantly looking. It's local work, home every night, good pay. Dream job on paper. But it's mostly oilfield, and that means no rules enforcement and when DOT busts a driver, the driver is screwed but the company already has someone knocking on the door wanting your job before you've even got your stuff out of your truck.

 

In my case I clock in, get all my oilfield gear sorted, wait on dispatch, get assigned a truck, pre trip, make any adjustments or repairs, then load and I'm off to the races. They want us logging in the EDL last so we aren't burning our 14 sitting in the yard. Often times there are other tasks like helping in the shop, errands in a non cdl vehicle, stuff like that. The difference between what the EDLs say and the time clock says can be anything from a few hours to an entire day or more depending on way work they gave us doing.