Sign the petition on the new elog mandate!

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by 379exhd, Mar 24, 2014.

  1. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    just outta curiosity.

    how much time does it take to trip plan???? and what's your back up plan???? as i see the original plan very seldom working out. too many things to go against you.

    somebody gonna have to teach me how that works. cuz i can't even figure out what's at the end of day for parking.,
     
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  3. mattbnr

    mattbnr Road Train Member

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    I use my gps and my phone apps to see what truckstops are near where I'm gonna stop. I start looking for parking 1 hour before I'm done parking. Normally closer to big cities the parking fills up faster.
     
  4. EZX1100

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    why do you let people push you around? you need elogs to speak for you?

    this welcoming attitude towards letting a computer control you is what is destroying this industry

    stand up, speak up, quit, but dont submit to being controlled by a computer
     
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  5. skip1955

    skip1955 Light Load Member

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    very good questions + answers , But ! I hope these can be answered ................ How small does a company have to be TO NOT have to have elogs ? and has the dead line been changed ?................ Thank you
     
  6. Guntoter

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    So, by your logic, the price of freight goes UP? I assume so by your comments about the price of everything going up as a result of drivers having fewer chances to run longer days. If the price of freight is going UP, how is that bad for the people hauling the freight?
    Seems to me like that just means more freight on load boards, higher rates, and less competition for available loads.
     
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  7. mattbnr

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    Honestly it won't effect the rate of anything. The big companies will just repower the loads to make them on time. No harm No foul.
    The single guy operations will just have to learn how to drive 11 hours a day legally. Plain and simple. If they can't then those loads will get taken by the megas who can always deliver on time.
    If the Elogs are implemented I guarantee the delivery times will change accordingly. They know they can't fudge the times so they will have to change the times according to what can be ran legally. No more 1000 mile runs that pick up Monday and need to be delivered Tuesday morning.
    Trucking is a evolving industry and anyone that wants to survive and thrive in it has to change with it or be left behind.
    If Schneider or swift never adapted to the new policies and regulations and fought tooth and nail over every little thing do you think they would be as big as they are? They started with 1 truck too. The big difference is they are smart business men and now own 10000+ trucks and are making money faster then they can spend it. They aren't ######## about having to spend $20 a month for a Qualcomm access. Learn from the megas, evidentially they are doing something right.
     
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  8. EZX1100

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    in other words, bend over and LIKE IT!
     
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  9. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    i'm NOT bending over. cuz i DON'T like it. :biggrin_25519:
     
  10. Cowpie1

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    Well, the carrier might be able to repower a load due to HOS and Elogs, but it is going to be fun to watch where they get the drivers from. Read the major fleet rags and they are really getting jitters about begin able to attract and retain drivers. Then you have the government breathing down their neck about employee classification, minimum wage stuff, and a million other things. Something it going to have to give sooner or later. The government is not likely to back off any time soon, and most young people today know that Smokey and the Bandit was never anything remotely realistic to actual trucking today, and they know how to go to places like this forum and see what it going on in trucking before making a move.

    I suppose one could argue that they will just import drivers from outside the U.S. Sure, that could happen. But the liability on them now has a noose around their neck. It sure isn't going to be hard for the law firm of Burn 'Em and Run to give a carrier a complete tonsillectomy via their anal cavity because one of these imports killed a family.

    Actually, on many levels, this is really fun to watch it play out. I don't like it, but it is getting to be fun to watch in many ways. Watching drivers have a fit and carriers squirm. I am surprised they aren't selling tickets to this side show.

    And a Whitehouse.gov account is required to sign the petition? Not me. I am not filling out some account stuff like that to sign a petition. Just like I didn't use healthcare.gov for health insurance. Once you are in these systems, they collect just about any info they want on you. And you were worried about Elogs?
     
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  11. SHO-TYME

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    Half of these new regs that are being shoved up our backsides are BECAUSE of those big companies, remember about 10 years ago when Schneider trucks hit everything but the moon and the lottery. Now all they preach is safety, that's because the lawsuits against them for all the accidents they had about put them out of business, same for any of the other mega fleets.
     
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