Grief from company for average speed?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by MACK E-6, Apr 20, 2019.
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Last year I was having trouble getting my Rand McNally ABORD system to read my truck ECM. Sometimes it would log drive time automatically, sometimes it failed to read drive time. When it didn't register drive time it wouldn't log miles, so I kept meticulous notes of miles driven from stop to stop and updated my logs to reflect actual miles.
The real problem came if the RM froze up and I would have to stop and reboot it. Then it might suddenly bring up an apparent history of unlogged miles and throw them on whatever segment of driving I had just finished. I recorded a land speed record, over 3000 miles in two hours, over dirt roads!
I was tempted to submit that to the Guinness Book of World Records, but doubt they would have accepted it. Sure glad I didn't get a Level 1 during that time. RM eventually got the unit working near 100% perfect, but wouldn't you know it, the entire unit crapped out the week after I sold my truck to my brother.booley, Truckermania and MACK E-6 Thank this. -
I'm waiting for this to come up during level whatever inspection. Where you average the speed limit or close to it, maybe even above it.
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#### I’m new.
I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Is this paperlog stuff mostly?
I was in AOBRD and now we’re in elogs. Nobody has ever said anything to me about average speed or cross referenced my elogs with a calculator and a map or whatever.
Maybe this isn’t specific to Western and they have a system in place. I run legal +/- 5mph and never worried about it.MACK E-6 Thanks this. -
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If a log book is so damning sometimes it's just a 30 dollar ticket to plead ignorance and say "I don't have my homework teacher" (I don't have my logs for you today Sir) Versus god only knows the thousands in fines waiting to be written in the other logbook which should itself combust in it's sins and crimes committed against the regulations.MACK E-6, otterinthewater and Lepton1 Thank this.
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