Log violation (general/form and manner)

OK, you're crazy. DOT gives the elogs guys a pass, because they don't want to deal with the computer and they figure that it's keeping us on the legal side anyway. They spend their time (from what I've seen) auditing the paper side... and we all know why.

 

Y'all sound like a buncha pink panty wearing pig tailed 3rd graders.

 

a lot of elog companies are getting violations

 

Ain't us. The CSA logging points are down to about half of what we were carrying when they started that CSA (good riddance!) nonsense. At that point we were still pretty much a paper log outfit.

Part 'n parcel of the decision to move to elogs was the CSA program, and the last compliance audit FMCSA did on us prior to CSA. The inspectors wanted none of the paper trail (toll, fuel receipts, etc...) and only looked at electronic location tags vs logged position. At that point, management decided that matching a GPS location provided by an electronic log to say a PrePass or EZPass electronic location would cause us less problems. Plus the advantages of integrating the electronic HOS data into the dispatch/load planning function. Seems to be working very well here- almost zero sitting around- unless you toss in the towel and tell 'em to leave you alone for awhile.

You'll notice there is nothing about safety in all of that...

Makes sense for the fleets, it's stupid for the individual owner/operator.

 

iron, that sounds so scary

what was the name of the robot/computer that took over the world in Terminator? SkyTech or something like that

 

It's a Brave New World dude. Skynet. And yeah, where this is all heading isn't anything like the world in the 60's and 70's. Not sure I like it one bit at all.

 

your wonderful friendly ATA said the standard is 9 minutes....including a set of doubles as well..This is what con-way was/is considering as paid time for a PTI..