What sucks about the trigger is you complete your 10 then roll over to the fuel island off duty in case there are a bunch of trucks sitting there waiting to get fuel, why start your 14 time just waiting, roll over there and wait til the opportune moment to start your 14/pretrip/fuel to get max hours.![]()
ELD question about "trip triggers"
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by mathematrucker, Aug 4, 2016.
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That's the thing about the trigger, if you know how yours works, you can avoid "triggering" a start time by doing (or avoiding) certain little things at the right time.
I have discovered a number of tips and tricks for dealing with various scenarios that save me a lot of time but I don't think it's a good idea to share them on a public forum. Suffice it to say, experiment with various things, pay attention to what it does and when it does it and try and figure out why it did what it did.
And every one's will behave differently so it's not prudent to say what I do and how I do it, when it may not work on their setup.mathematrucker, Eaton18, Roberts450 and 1 other person Thank this. -
Mine still lets you crawl at 5mph.., or under 15mph in 5th. I just recently tested it. You can go from the CR terminal to the Walmart without tripping your clock, but everything's different, but man that is useful.
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As I understand it, the company can set the parameters they want.
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The FMCSA's December 2015 rules evidently rendered some of my previous experiments (all were done before I resigned in June 2015) invalid, which is what prompted me to start this thread. Some strategies seem okay to talk about here, things like turning off the engine, manually changing from line 1 to line 2 (or vice versa), but yes, other strategies are best left for drivers to discover on their own through experimentation.
By the way, lest there be any doubt about the underlying issue, ELD's are a house built on sand: the HOS rules make little sense to begin with. They routinely put drivers in situations where (a) it's absurd they have to sit and wait before they can drive, and (b) it's absurd they are expected to drive.
I believe this to be the main underlying reason OOIDA is battling so hard against the mandate. If the HOS rules were more reasonable then mandatory ELD's would be less of an issue.
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