Just say no, CH Robinson wants to sit on your lap!!

Just to clarify, I have always been on e-logs, and I have only had one serious log violation (oversight that was corrected). Only a couple times here and there have I gone over, usually only a couple minutes.

The ability to fudge a bit would have been nice in such a situation, though I guess 1 or 2 minutes isn't THAT big of a deal. Once I went over 1 minute waiting for a traffic light to change so I could turn into a truck stop parking lot. Don't usually run it that tight, but sometimes there just aren't that many places to stop.

 

I actually do use an old flip phone,lol, and they think I'm lying.

 

I take a rigid stance on my privacy. Should I have drivers running under my flag, I take the same rigid stance on their privacy.

My company trucks will be tracked. My company trailers will be tracked. By ME! If the darned broker needs to know that badly, he or she can call ME! Dealing with those clowns is MY job, not my driver's. They have enough to do.

And if the broker pulls that "Just have your driver call me when he reaches the shipper" BS, I pull the "Just find someone else for your load!".

Plenty of freight out there if you know where to look. And CH Robinson (in my experience as a driver) has ALWAYS been too cheap and too much of a PITA to deal with BEFORE this "tracking" cheap!

 

Yeah, I had to agree to that. I don't mind that much though. Completely understand your view though.

 

That is a really great post.
My attitude is this and it has been a constant fight. If I am leased onto a carrier then nobody has any business having my phone number let alone tracking me. I have a dispatcher and that is part of the suite of business services I am paying for (the commission) - interfacing with the broker. So I refuse check calls and have a message on my phone to that effect. I only communicate with the office. It is done via texts so is time and date stamped.
Mostly this has worked quite well but always the uncalled for phone call right as you are backing in a dock or avoiding traffic. They couldn't care less. You could kill someone and they don't care. Then bleat on about safety.
Under my own authority it is completely different. I deal with them without any bad feelings. I just do it on my own terms. Again this has worked out pretty well.

 

I had Robinson or TQL did that once as a condition of the load. Phone tracked somehow. The load delivered here in Phoenix multi stop. But I got here Friday night, and it didn't deliver, first stop, until Monday. So I took the old man to Vegas. Phone musta rang 50 times, well they called 50 times, I just muted it. LMFAO

 

Nope. Anyone can track a cellphone. How do you think they caught all those people stuffing the ballot boxes in the 2020 election. All you have to do is pay for the data. C.H. Robinson will ask you for your phone number and your current location. With that they get your IMEI number and can track you forever as long as they keep paying.

 

I can assure you, as someone who has customers that require tracking at all times, i could care less what you do after my load delivers. No interest in finding out where you ate lunch at or got an oil change.

And doesn't matter if you run through me or the customer direct, you're going to track or they wont give you/me any freight. They don't care if you're a company driver, leased on, or an owner op. They dont care why you're late either, they just drop a fine and keep it moving.

 

This. It would actually cost me money to track you when you aren't on the shipment, and lord knows I don't have money to waste in this market. It isn't some grand conspiracy to figure out your movements and report it to the NSA, it's just a lot more efficient to have geo fence tracking and many customers require it in this day and age.

 

It is probably innocent and just a easier way for them to track the load, but I can see it leaving the door open to abuse. Data is a big business these days.