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

Couldn't have said it much better- thank you- Great Post

 

What a lot of drivers these days don't realize is that their company is on the hook every time they #### up, often at double the rate the driver gets hit at (or worse). Good companies don't want drivers to get tickets because they get tickets too.

My company will send out another driver to bring the truck back if a driver runs out of hours on their way back to the yard.

 

That's when its time to find a new job.

 

Read my post again.Its not the shippers responsibility to babysit the drivers.Shippers load hundreds of drivers every day its not part of their job description to know the HOS.

 

The meat and produce brokers and shippers [who typically deal with paper runners] are going to be the ones who hit the biggest wall. They will have to find a way to deal with shippers who routinely miss load times by hours, even days, as well as 5-36 hour weather delays that used to be easily "worked out" by the "super-truckers".

Paper runners could make up for a lot of shipper and weather delay BS, and still make set delivery appointments. But that will come to a screeching halt pretty soon. I'm going to enjoy listening to all the crying and whining in the beginning.

 

There is no such thing as a an "elog Federal Driving Rule". The are only the HOS rules ... you're in the same spot whether you're on paper or e log. The only thing paper does is give you the 3rd option of falsifying your logs, in addition to violating HOS rules.

Your friends problem isn't e logs. His problem is he's been too lazy to learn how to properly trip plan and been gun decking his logs as a default.

 

The 30 minute break is going to be the biggest bugaboo clogging up trucks stops and fuel lanes mid day. They really need to do way with this, and if they could observe all the BS at truck stops that will double and triple in 2018, maybe the truck stop operators can force the FMCSA to do away with it to give them some breathing room.

As far as the normal break, it's not like most drivers don't already stop for 8-10 hours per day anyway, paper or not. so I don't see and significant night time changes to the normal cluster-fck we already have.