Elog......maybe not

Way to take a comment out of context. Any chance you work for the media?

When I said "I expressed an opinion and asked for opinions from those who are in the know. I'll ask when and what I chose to ask my friend. I haven't needed a dad for my entire life I don't need one now "... I was commenting to a gentleman whose response wasn't information, or an argument for or against elogs. His response was this " You'd be well advised to listen more and talk less until you know what you're talking about. "

As for those actually answering my question and giving feedback I've been nothing but polite and responsive to that. If you cared to read any of my other responses you'd see that. Again, being selective about what you read and what you quote.....you gotta be media right? Right!?

But if all you have to say is another version of "Shutup you don't know nothing" well I'll just have to respond in kind.


Ed

 

You told him!

 

Why stay on-duty after you dock and are being loaded or unloaded, thus burning your 70 hour clock? No need to do that, unless you're in the warehouse assisting.

 

That's always what the loser in a case does. It is rarely granted.

 

You're right, I log 10-15 min. on duty and the rest is off duty.

 

Well this is something I'm not understanding. When using elogs can you not log off duty to save that time on your 14? Or with elogs is it once you start a 14 you can't stop it?

For example....I wake up with a fresh 14. Duty on and drive for an hour to the receiver to get unloaded/reloaded. I don't do anything during this time so I go off duty. Say unloading/reloading takes 2 hours. I've only used 1 hour for driving or any work at all. When I log back on duty and start driving again do I have 13 hours or 12? Assume I had no part in the unloading/loading phase.


Ed

 

That seems true, but they won with the full court, what would you do.

 

I would much rather have paper logs than e-logs. I'd much rather have e-logs than driver activity monitors. I'd much rather have driver activity monitors than EEG monitors.

Why make the argument about how you feel? Do you really want the govt monitoring how you feel? Really? There were not fewer complaints before these improvements. We didn't all sit around saying "you know these regulations are just right. I hope nobody fixes them."

 

The problem is that to stop your 14 you have to go into the sleeper for 8 hours. You might as well spend another 2 in the sleeper and get your hours for tomorrow back. Not much stops your 14 hour clock once it starts.

 

That's correct, when you log off duty at a shipper/Receiver you're saving on your 70 hrs.