"FORCED to break-the-law!---"Elogs and the Catch 22???"

The poor pay is from the incoming workforce willing to accept .30 a mile to start. Really? WTF? .30 was awesome money 40 years ago. It should be .50 or more to start and probably a dollar for top hands.

 

I too am on paper. Between. 2 and 3 years ago I began working toward legal only logs. It has cut the revenue but I now enjoy driving more because I don’t worry about all the ramifications of illegal logs. One of which is a driving illegally idiot suing me which is where I am at right now. Matching paperwork is going to help me.

 

The poor pay is the result of many factors. I don’t need to list them for you.

 

We can solve some of the pay issue by first getting drivers to log all the work they do. Then people will see when the truck is not moving how important our times is. When the boss says I booked more loads at $1.25 a mile we need you driving because we are paying you $0.20 cents per mile you just keep driving.

When you say I can't I'm out of hours the boss will have to stop moving $1.25 freight. The ELDs will foce the drivers that never wanted to stop on paper logs because they were saying. I can just drive 4,000 miles and make more money. When the drivers are forced to stop. Then the company is forced to stop. Then they have a couple options. They can go out of business or stop hauling $1.25 freight.

See how ELDs will solve the problem. Ha ha

 

I see two further options a company might have. Hire two drivers to a team truck, that 0.20 might become 0.40 to the truck maybe? Or hire more drivers. Or do hiring more drivers and BUILD a new terminal near the big time shipper with that 1.25 freight.

I don't know if these would be valid or not, but anything that will stop a entire trucking company will also threaten to show up in our stores as empty shelving and also in over late internet shopping delivery.

 

Extremely well put.

 

None of those would make financial sense. If one can afford two drivers in the truck, they can afford paying one more. If they can afford to spends hundreds of thousands of dollars for a new terminal, they can afford to pay the driver more and still come out ahead.

Many folks have just buried their head in the sand on how this is going to work with ELD's kicking in. I really don't have much sympathy for them, as the rule has been out for almost 2 years, giving everyone plenty of time to learn how to plan loads and such to make it all fit. Instead, many just complain and do things like usual. Those are the one that will get hit the hardest with this. It is common knowledge, you can't just go from paper to electronic and make it all work well in one day, one week, or even one month.