ELD IS GOING AWAY !!!!!

That means war. Literally time of Battle against Winter to tend to all those people who need the fuels. Motivating!!!! Drive until you pass out. Sleep a nap time and get back up at her.

We had a winter here in the south not long ago where railcars of propane got drained as fast as they were filled on paper several states away as Arkansas orders poured into the local distributors. Essentially the fuel was sold to the last drop before the huge rail car or tractor trailer got filled up coming to Arkansas.

 

Highly unlikely for OTR operations going to a per hour pay scale. I have been using Elogs for 5 years and have seen no appreciable difference in getting what I need done. Hasn't negatively affected my income in any way, and I still get home regularly like before. All my irrational concerns about electronic logs was wasted time.

 

Your avatar looks pretty clean for a KW did you leave off the excess parts to save weight or something? I keep thinking there is more to those tractors than meets the eye.

 

It's a Freightliner. What extra parts left off are you referring to? Side Skirts? Never cared for them and I like having storage along frame rails. Still has dual stacks, just up the back instead of sides. I hate side stacks with a passion.

 

You are right it's a Freightliner. My apologies. The image is so small versus the monitor I have, excuses excuses. Let's see, I understand you better now that you showed preferences for the equiptment.

Side stacks were a liability when backing, it's almost like you have to open the door to see around them sometimes. Ive never seen People with side stacks really happy with them. Storage along the frame rails is a challenge. I remember one cab that had literally a metal pickup truck lock box on top of the catwalk. For what we did with it in flatbed straps rolled, chain binders etc it was a very good quality box. It simply never broke.

Again, have a peaceful day, I'll do my best to move on past the mistake looking at small pictures the problem is in the eyes.

 

You bring up a Great question that I personally have pondered for years......And I Agree 100%
Heres what I think would happen though-

MOST of these irregular route Large Carriers (Megas and medium size) Will say
"The Heck with that".....And Close up shops by the hundreds...

Instead of doing the right thing..They'd Walk away from transportation With a thinking of "Theres No way Im paying these drivers by the Hour" And I Believe it. The Owners-CEO's would simply do this because their own personal profits would be significantly lower

if A law came about every driver was to get paid by the hour- The small amount of carriers that stay in the game just might flourish.

 

ELD's, which are different from Elogs, or EOBR's are going to impact different operations very differently. Essentially those companies who have a somewhat predictable logistics flow and wanted to manage their fleets with real time information( location, hrs avail, other variables) adopted the technology early on, the balance between the loss of productivity was offset by the gained efficiency of the real time info.
Others, like our operation have no such predictability.

The ELD's of course were never the issue, The issue is a 1 size fit's all HOS regulation now being enforced by an unforgivingly precise device that the human body and life in general is at odds with.

 

It is grotesque to me that Ottos will save the day in the entire industry.

For those wondering what a Otto is, it is a name given to a 18 wheeler completely independant of a human driver that delivered beer 120 miles in Colorado once. It does have to be babysat by the Law every mile. (Imagine that... a condrundum to end all condrundum...)