Oh what fun! Elogs

then why in the world would you ever sugest someone waste 15 MORE minutes on the logbook for a PTI? we only get 70 Hours, I can burn that up REAL quick




American Trucker

 

Well what I was trying to say, is that you know there are places, like Brownsville, TN, where the DOT might say, "lets see you do a 15 minute PTI".

I am all for conserving hours where one can. Personally, I have mixed feelings about ELOGS. Its really going to cut out "creative logging", which is good in some ways, but bad in others... Gonna be tough for a driver to make money if they spend the night at a customer, but the ELOG shows them moving the truck around after 8 hours, and the driver has to take another full 10.

Now, I am just assuming thats how it will work, but maybe not. I dont want to see this be a big problem, but there will be some growing pains over the next several months as everyone gets used to it. But I guess Wener has been using them for years, and the last company I worked for used them, though a much different kind of elog (XATA).

 

We got to the truck today after having a reset and found a msg on the QC telling us we were going to get to start elogs. Well, we've discussed it with Gladys our truck and she's with us on this.........no thanks. I'm wondering if I can claim that someone stole that new QC right out of the cab. Pity how that happened. Tragic. *hides my screwdriver from view* I'm so sad that it's gone.

 

Those tattle-tale elogs are messed up. It's supposed to be there to let you log accurately, not purposely get you into trouble. I can drive mine down to the last few seconds, stop at the light down the street or in the parking lot, whatever, switch it to on duty, and take as much time as I want to park. If it's going to switch to driving because I'm moving, it pops a notice and asks me if I want to switch. I hit skip, it doesn't change. The only thing I can't do is switch off the drive line while the truck is moving.

There's no stupid red light either. It beeps once or twice and that's it.

 

Your mistake was allowing the thing to get on a first name basis with you! tsk tsk tsk

 

I have seen this idea repeated over and over on these forums. Has anyone ever actually had this requested of them, or is this just another truckstop rumour? And if you did, why on earth would you comply? I was tested in order to get my license. Most companies will also ask a prospective new hire to perform inspections to ensure they have a level of knowledge sufficient enough to entrust them with the equipment. Beyond that, I'm not a trained monkey that performs tasks for the satisfaction, or bemusement of some official. A pre-trip might take 15 minutes today, it might take 22 minutes tomorrow and it might be 12 minutes the day after. Just because a driver logged a specific time for an inspection on one occasion, it does not ensure that same task is repeatable in the same time on another occasion. If an officer has reason to suspect that a log entry is false then let him articulate that on a citation, otherwise... piss up a rope.

 

I'd like to see the regulation that states that a pretrip must be exactly 15 minutes. I'm betting there isn't one. The only reason this 15 minutes thing exists, is because the paper logs run in 15 minute increments. Well, elogs don't. I log it as I do it. Now that is in the regulations.