Falsification

See, elogs are even worse than paper logs! They can falsify them for you.

 

Ideally, you only want to log 30 minutes for a live load or unload. Do you log it all on duty?
If so, you're just hurting yourself.

 

Personally I would run my hours out gleefully. You heard me right. If I was waiting to load or unload on the shippers or receivers property.......on duty not driving. yup.....ran out of hours....so sorry. Also tell them not to change your hours. I would hope they would change my hours against my wishes. Just more fodder for my lawyer and the FMCSA.

I would pray the company took adverse action on me for doing that. Would use the nice new regulation on driver coercion and go right after them. $$$$$ If I was a company driver I would be recording all my telephone calls as proof. Here comes the lawsuit too.

Look...you don't get paid a dime to sit there and rot when at a shipper or reciever. Drivers are basically being treated like modern day coolies by many of the carriers. You now have the power to take recourse against some of these greedy carriers. Many of these carriers love the ELDs. Well......if they love em so much.....let em have it so they know we are in fact on duty when waiting at a shipper or reciever. Let them have the truth and don't let them change your logs. No more hiding.

 

Best post Ive read in a while.

 

I'm not going to cheer for anyone calling a lawyer over what we have been doing for years. Get the job done, be glad your company understands and can make it happen.

Whiney ### little #####es.

 

I'm hurting myself by not allowing the company to get free work out of me, and to then increase my actual on duty time without resting? How does that hurt me in the end?

 

You mean exploit you? Guess what pal, the hours of service were originally set up to protect the driver! During the depression, if you didn't want to drive 6 hours from New York to DC, and then spend another 8-10 hours, hand unloading the truck, and drive back here, and leave after 2 hours off, we'll get somebody else who will do it!

 

Myself and a while bunch others are the guys who will do it while you no driver's lounge, the coffee is a half hour old whining, crying baby, pansies won't.

 

Sounds to me like your being the whiney crying little pansey.