NEW ELD standard Triggering my E-Logs in yard movement

The big carriers all try this to one degree or another. They have a large enough driver pool that they find enough suckers to create "team trucks", but the poor bastardos, they don't rarely have true team LONG HAUL freight to work with, they just haul their bread and butter short and mid range freight , 24/7 and lucky if they can manage more than 4,500 mile/week with those loads. That, split among two drivers, is terrible for the drivers, but great for the company. And it's just not the miserable gross pay they deal with, it's 10+ idle hours every week sitting in a sardine can, in the heat, staring at each other, waiting for the next pickup or drop to hurry up and get done.

Good team creation just doesn't happen organically very often. And when it's a bad mix, it won't work for very long, and it creates lots of problems and costs to break the team down and rebuild it every couple of months. Solo driving will still be the overwhelming reality forever I guess. That's what has always drawn many into the trade is the idea of being alone for days and weeks, and that will never change no matter what the carriers do to try and move away from that concept, toward team operation.

 

How about they just give solo drivers more time to do the run. If at terminal they can hire another yard guy if needed to move trailers. It will just be the price of doing business

 

Understand, with many systems, the "speed rule" only starts a "pre-timer" [that it will "back-date" to], but as long as you stop inside of a certain distance threshold and turn off the truck [or other actions I won't detail here], it won't start/commit the Drive time, and will extend (commit) the current status (Off Duty or Sleeper) to that new time. That should be clear as mud.

This is not the case with ALL systems, just some.

 

Looks like I'll be retiring at the end of this year lol

 

that's exactly right until december company can set the speed and miles but once the mandate hits its 5mph.Just another reason why elogs suck.

 

Can somebody provide some links verifying the details of this hot-button issue some swear by? I'm more interested in the details and fine print than the bullet point general statements.

Thanks in advance.

Or is this coffee counter "trucker here-say"?

 

Well Im gonna be driving 5mph thru major arterials with my flashers on I guess! There will be plenty others doing the same.

 

Appendix A to Subpart B of Part 395—
Functional Specifications for All
Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs)

4.3.1.2. Vehicle Motion Status
(a) An ELD must automatically determine whether a CMV is in motion or stopped by comparing the vehicle speed information with respect to a set speed threshold as follows:
(1) Once the vehicle speed exceeds the set speed threshold, it must be considered in motion.
(2) Once in motion, the vehicle must be
considered in motion until its speed falls to 0 miles per hour and stays at 0 miles per hour for 3 consecutive seconds. Then, the vehicle will be considered stopped.
(3) An ELD’s set speed threshold for
determination of the in-motion state for the purpose of this section must not be
configurable to greater than 5 miles per hour.
(b) If an ELD is required to have a link to
the vehicle’s engine ECM, vehicle speed
information must be acquired from the
engine ECM. Otherwise, vehicle speed
information must be acquired using an
independent source apart from the
positioning services described under section 4.3.1.6 of this appendix and must be accurate within ±3 miles per hour of the CMV’s true ground speed for purposes of determining the in-motion state for the CMV.