Elogs..The good,The bad and the ugly truth

Take some time and read the proposal. It makes no difference in it whether loaded or empty.

Companies will have NO CHOICE.

Here are some highlights from another post I made.


The new proposal will put an end to the editing and personal conveyance. Drivers should take the time and read it.

It mentions beginning and after personal use and yard moves. I look for this to be even stricter.


Integral synchronization with the CMV engine,*
to automatically capture engine power status,
vehicle motion status, miles driven, engine
hours.
* For MY 2000 and later, interfacing with engine
ECM.


Require automated entry at each change of duty
status, at 60-minute intervals while CMV is in
motion, at engine-on and engine-off instances,
and at beginning and end of personal use and
yard moves.

•
To be integrally synchronized to the
engine.
•
To provide the same basic
information as is required on an
AOBRD, including the identity of the
driver, the USDOT number, and the
CMV’s identification.
•
To record the distance traveled and
the driver’s duty status.

To automatically record the date,
time, and location of the CMV at each
change of duty status and at intervals of
no greater than 60 minutes while the
CMV was in motion.
•
To ensure the security and integrity
of the recorded data by conforming to
specific information processing
standards.
•
To meet certain communications
interface requirements for hardwired
and wireless transfer of information.
•
To allow drivers to annotate the
ELD record while requiring the ELD or
its support system to maintain the
original recorded information and track
the annotations.
•
To be resistant to tampering by
protecting both input and output. It
would have identified any amendments
or annotations of the record, including
who made them and when.
•
To provide a digital file in a
specified format for use by enforcement
officials that could be read using non-
proprietary software. This would have
included the ability to generate a graph-
grid on an enforcement official’s
computer, rather than on the ELD itself.

To provide certain self-tests and
self-monitoring. It would have
identified sensor failures and edited or
annotated data. The ELD would also
have provided a notification 30 minutes
before the driver reached the daily on
duty and driving limits.

 

Plan better

 

Work less.... Get home with time to spare.

Dispatcher...... Can you ?

Driver...... No won't have enough time to get where ever, it's to close sorry ......

 

Line 5 off duty driving.

 

How about using the "personal conveyance" feature in regards to running out of clock close to home?

 

the last company i was with, had no problem with us useing PC to go home. serveral hundred miles. after all, we weren't loaded.
one guy went from phoenix to detroit. for some reason he just didn't want to find a load. oklahoma didn't like that idea though. and wrote him up. but the company stood 100% behind him and fought it.

i think line 5 has reasoning to be used. but some guys abuse that reasoning. for me, going home for turkey EMPTY. because ever load available was too cheap. was my reason.

as for good, bad, and ugly. i see nothing good. it's all BAD, and they look very UGLYYYYY

 

I have never come up too short on hours to make it home.

 

Also can edit on duty time. If u were supposed to be off duty but were accidentally end up on duty u can go back change it to off duty and get on duty hours back.

 

Well, a lot is speculation on the part of folks who have no experience with Elogs. But this PC thing is purely company directed as to whether a driver can use it or not. The FMCSA has a provision for using it. If someone cannot use it, that is company directed. Now that being said. I have been on Elogs for almost 2.5 years. I use PC each and every week. I used it the other day when I dropped the trailer in town and bobtailed to my home 11 miles out in the country. Will use it again later to return to the trailer, then will hook and do a pre-trip and head on down the road with the Elog doing its thing.

I haven't really used the PC thing for more than about a hundred miles, and it has always been inside the same state. But I have been using it for a long, long time on both paper and Elogs. Have been stopped a couple of times and have never gotten a citation. If one uses a little sense in using PC, they hardly ever have a problem.