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

Get back to us in 10 years and tell us how it all works out....

 

If you ever wanted freedom of the open road, you should be pulling an RV. Since I "officially" got into doing this in a big way in 1982, I have never seen anything that resembled "freedom of the open road". It has always been a cat and mouse game between drivers, DOT personnel, and a conflict between what can be done and what everyone wants done. Not sure that all of that ever qualified as "freedom of the road".

 

You do a reset weekly obviously so your not picking up the same every day since with 10 hours a day you have 0 hours left on the 8th day.

 

Withdraw the question.Not worth the aggravation.

 

Why are u afraid of cowpies self righteous bs. That's all he spews. Its ok to hate elogs or paper. Its your opinion. Stop trying to impress him.

 

I've believe that E-Logs are another step in closing the doors of the little man. It's ridiculous but it happens.

I think the 14 should be done away with and just have 24 to run 11 hours. And loose the "On Duty Not Driving" line. My opinion, you don't have to agree.

 

Then I suggest that everyone running in IA...Run on ELOGs....No paper.....
Then if you get pulled into a coop...Have a "mysterious accident" with your EOBR.....

What are they gonna do then?....They want "Paperless Logs"....Give it to them....110%!!!!

 

Now we are getting close to reality. The Elogs are not the problem, just making the problem larger. The HOS is the problem. It is not based on reality in any way, shape, or form. The primary focus on the whole issue should be the HOS and how they cannot be applicable to each and every aspect of such a diverse a thing as trucking. If the HOS were more realistically based, and maybe even more personalized for the segment of trucking it is applied to, then the Elog would not be any kind of an issue for hardly anyone.

And another way to look at the Elog thing is liability. It is a lot harder for some ambulance chasing lawyer to make a case against a truck driver with an Elog. But with paper? That is an easy one. Anyone who has been awake for the last 10 years should know that there are a plethora of ways they can find out if where you have been when you said you were somewhere. All of those cameras that are cropping up along the interstates for one. Haven't noticed them? Look out your window once in a while. And how about license plate recognition. There are devices installed in a lot of locations that can take a shot of passing vehicle license plates and match them to whatever database some government agency is using. And now that video security cameras are the rage at most business', all it takes is subpoena of some business security camera recordings showing if you went by their place of business when you said you did. Of course we all know about cell phone pinging off cell towers. Might not be accurate to better than a mile or two, but it can still be used to see if you were even in the general area you claimed to be. And the list goes on and on. It is truly amazing what a good lawyer can find out in discovery and what information he can obtain to base his case. For all of it's restrictions, an Elog could very well save someone's bacon when things hit the fan. And in this day of lawsuits being filed like crazy, having a little extra to help defend yourself is not a bad thing.

 

i've been running elogs since i came back out on the road.

only difference with my elogs. is it runs on windows. and comes with a printer.

basically, i'm running electronic paper. powered by windows.