Petition to stop EOBRs

Ok class. Lets try this again. Say you're driving, for, 2.5 hours. You did a pre-trip at the start of your day. Get to the Pilot, you have to fuel. Billy Bigrigger is sitting at the pump, inside and getting 24 double cheeseburgers for lunch. You put it in to Off Duty. You're in Off Duty until Mr Heart Attack Waiting To Happen waddles out with his 4 McDonald's bags full of grease filled burgers. He gets into his truck, and eventually (after downing 3 of the said burgers and some Diet Coke, has to watch his blood sugar you know) drives off. You pull up to the fuel island, put yourself in On Duty, fuel in the comments, and fuel your truck. Fueling takes 9 minutes. Get in the truck, switch to Off Duty, go inside, pee, get your drink, etc, get on down the road. The E-Log automatically puts you into Driving after a mile or so. So you did an 8 minute Pretrip, a 9 minute fuel and you've been driving for 2 and a half hours. You took a little more than 2.75 hours off your On Duty time, and about 15 minutes of Off Duty. You still have plenty of time to finish your 11 hours driving.

 

here the problem to that once u start u cant stop u still got the 14hr clock ticking away during all this the other day ive been pretty steady for a few weeks truck was dirty so what do i do i pull in the truck wash wash the truck and asked around on the cb if anyone did polishing in the area....sure enough someone did (everywhere i ended up noone did polishing for the last month it was driving me nuts) i talk to the gentlmen and he gives a price and says its going to be about 4 hrs to do the job right i say ok no problem i crawl in the bunk and take me a nice refreshing nap i wake up to the guy being done and wow he did an excellent job pay him tear out a page in the log book rewrite it since i have not hit any tolls or have any time stamps for the day and carry on with my day why in the hell would i want to trade that kinda freedom for a babysitter telling me when im tired. some of u might say well you should be working and plan ur route better dadada well after a month of trying to find a reputable person to do the job and finding noone because of shear bad luck i had enough.... not only did i get the job done, i did it safely and in a timely manner. but most of u door slammers will never understand

 

Preach it supertrucker

 

I understand that you are yet another driver who is saying the reason you don't want elogs to be mandatory is because its easier to break the law with paper logs. I understand that you're saying this on a public forum on the internet which means anyone can see it and it will never go away. And finally I understand that whether you intended to or not, your comments have just done more to hurt your cause than to help it.

It never ceases to amaze me how often truckers can be their own worst enemy.

 

super trucker because he gets the job done without the Nanny State dictating when he is tired and when he is rested?

i guess there are more super truckers on the road than "non" super truckers

i am simply amazed at the amount of drivers on this forum that love being told what to do, how to do it, and when to do it, by a computer

i guess you guys cant wait until the government tells you to bend over a bit more

 

no, i dont think it has to do with breaking the law, as much as it has to be with submitting to laws that make no sense

what will you do when they say you can only drive 8hrs a day? you will call those who drive 11hrs outlaws? and brag about how you are making more money and better rested because you drive only 8hrs a day

simply amazing the logic drivers use, and then we wonder why the government keeps adding more and more restrictions

because we accept more and more restrictions

 

Why supertrucker?

Just because someone does not need a net nanny?

 

I have seen Class Envy here before from you....But now "O/O Envy"?
Seriously Joe....You need to resolve some issues buddy......

 

Billy Bigrigger doesn't have to be an owner operator....... I have given that name to the, uh, bigger drivers out here. There are "drivers" who certainly meet the criteria.

 

Do you drive a "Hood" or do you drive a "Prius"?