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VERY WELL PUT........And if the ''big bully'' Landstar forces me to get an E-LOG.I too will tell them to go scrub salt in there ###....

 

FMcSA recently had a Request For Comments to allow drivers to comment on EOBR's . They got less than 50 comments .
I'm so done with my carrier's EOBR crap I might as well wipe. I gave my notice this morning.

 

Your better off finding a ''local'' gig if you can.You prolly make more money working ''hourly'' anymore than running the road.They turned OTR into a 9-5 Factory job.Almost not worth it anymore.

A friend of mine sold his truck and then walked away from his company E-LOG job.He tossed in the towel.He found a Union Line Haul job and has great Beni's and he is home evry day and grosses out at 1,480 a week..He ended up doing much much better and his beni's are outstanding..

He told me he wished he would of done this 20 tears ago.He is so DONE with OTR Trucking.He get's paid for everything he does,even dropping a trailer and sitting at a dock....He is trying to keep an ear open for me to get on and then i am SELLING and running for better pastures.OTR SUCKS ANYMORE..

 

rick

drivers dont respond because we know we dont get listened to

there is a driving force behind this, and until it is identified and overcome, that is what is dictating these various programs

if ATA and OOIDA cant make these folks budge, a million emails wont do it either

now, if drivers walked off the job? that would force their hand

but with prices and bills the way they are (purposely), most of us dont want to lose our life conveniences to actually do something meaningful

so they use that carrot to keep us chasing the rabbit

 

Thanks for the suggestions . I'm retiring but can make $15,000 a year and still get full SS benefits . Already at that this year .
My county road department hires temporary drivers for 6 months each year . I'll consider that next year.

 

Another friend of mine Bob just did that too.He is 60 and tossed in the towel after 42 years of trucking.He is happier than ever.He drives a ''straight'' truck 7 months a year and collect unemployment the rest.Nice seasonal job for him.

NO LOGS and HOME EVERYDAY with his wife.He needs 2 years with this local small outfit and he can retire and continue to work for them..There is life after the total destruction to trucking..

 

Ah... come on now. Not all of us on e-logs are broke, unhappy, and miserable. Some of us are doing quite well. I hope any e-log mandate gets bogged down so deep in the courts and my hired help in D.C. rides FMCSA so hard they feel like they have been given a barbed wire enema so that any e-log mandate dies a cold death. Nice to dream. But it is a long shot for that to be a reality given the political climate. But we can try!

 

Look, hotshot. I have done as much or more to write, call, post comments to FMCSA, etc than most anyone here on this forum regarding stopping any EOBR mandate. I do use an EOBR also, and like it. I feel no need to refuse to work for the carrier I am leased on with just because they want to use one. They know how to plan and book freight so that any perceived handicaps using EOBR's are almost eliminated. I have done as well as any time on paper. I am not, nor have I ever, pushed for EOBR's on everyone else, so why don't you idiots quit trying to lump everyone with EOBR's into the same basket. The more you do this, the more you are starting to look like little kids who just lost their lollypop and are throwing a tantrum, by trying to say that all of us using EOBR's are somehow in a conspiracy against you. You need to seek professional help before you blow a gasket.

 

Cowpie.I am certain you are not lieing.But i would have to see an e-logger ''settlement'' for me to be a believer on drivers running ''e-logs''.I have been trying to get some off these Landstar E-loggers to show me there settlement and they REFUSE.I even offered them 100 bucks and no deal..But they sing me the same Landstar Company Brown Nose Song on how wonderful it is..

I no for me it is hell and alot of coloring in my coloring book to acheive $5,000 gross for the week.There is so much that goes on out there in the ''real'' field.Waiting at docks on an LTL P/U,accidents,detours,breakdowns,long lines at truck stops and the such.I no for me,running 100% legal to the minute i would lose 30% of my gross per week...IMO

 

This statement really pissed off Cowpie.......Poor Cowpie...