Mandatory ELD For Mercer...AGAIN!

Then I guess you need to get your facts straight and stop spreading misinformation, Karl. 1999 and down is exempt from the ELD mandate. Furthermore, there's a good chance it will be overturned....again. I'm glad you're happy with them, good for you but if they were soooo great they wouldn't have to FORCE most truck to use them would they now? Don't come here and turn my thread into an argument for ELDs please. It's clear you're just a Mercer driver who got butthurt over my opinion of them. Which I fully held the reigns on as to not offend the Mercers fanboys here.

 

I also think they're trying to squeeze out any and all competition. The ones pushing the law are Maverick, JB Hunt and Knight. If ELDs were so great they wouldn't need a law to FORCE most trucks to use them.

 

Excuse me?

https://blog.bigroad.com/blog/eld-mandate-exemptions

I used their website as my main source of information. It's better to get the information from the source. AND I've seen you fanboys shred people for not checking there first so it was already ingrained in me vicariously thorough them. Obviously, they failed to update the site for quite some time. I personally find that almost as unacceptable as the ridiculously long wait times I was subjected to when calling in numerous times. The people handling the phones didn't sound very professional either. But I'll digress. This thread has already been ruined as it is.

 

Indeed. Even the weaker ones could simply call out a couple days sick without making it known to their lord and masters that they were actually standing for something.

 

I read about that elsewhere too. One only needs to sit in a spot at any truck stop and watch the caliber of drivers coming, going and ATTEMPTING to park. The industry is overflowing with too many people that don't have two brains cells to rub together. They're robots. Machines. Obese. Beat down. Walking dead.