Swift Lease/Owner Operator News

What I was told is they are going to start giving out performance bonuses for all drivers this quarter. Yes by August all lease operators will have the new qualcomm and be on E-Logs. They are not too bad I have been on them for almost two weeks.

Still ways to save you some time.

 

Thanks Injun. I did hear when talking to Dan last Thursday in Phoenix about the E-logs for L/O by August of 2012. I am very curious about the possible new pay system. Also when they are going to take away the ranking system.

As far as E-logs, they are fine unless you are stuck running the hills and mtns of the east coast and all of the congestion. It will just eat away your hours, just like on paper.

 

I'd be more than willing to let you have my new QC.





I really don't care for it.

 

The fleet I'm on got word today that we need to take the E-log class in the next few days as we will be weaned onto the paperless in a few weeks.

 

You will really be lucky to be able to drive your full 11 on E-logs. I always have to start looking for a place to park as soon as it starts blinking red at me at 60 minutes left to drive.

Don't count on the place you are going to park to have spaces. You get close to your hours being up you better start looking ahead of time. I had to stop tonight because I did not want to take a chance at the TA in Indy not having any spaces left then I would have been screwed. So I parked when I had 45 minutes to drive at a Loves just to be safe.


Tomorrow is going to be interesting because I have to drive 600 miles and right up to my hours in order to make the Friday morning delivery. Gonna be close will see.

 

Same thing happens with paper logs.

 

At least with the paper logs you can pull over several times during the 14 for 15 minute breaks but only really take 7.5 minutes. Every 8 times you do that, you gain an hour.

But I welcome the elogs. Stuff like this cheating will finally go away- blaming the driver for the planners' poor distance planning (time to distance) will finally go away. Expected to go 826 QC miles when in reality it is 905 miles in 15 hours delivery schedule out in country bumpkin 2 lane highways with 25 MPH steep mountains and 25 MPH hick towns to roll through will go away.

The whole industry will change due to these elogs. You're going to see masses of late loads and someone is gonna say 'gee whiz those drivers were really making it happen before with paper logs, and we were unjustly blaming them all that time'.

I also welcome the mac 30 as I have not been able to use it due to service failures on my record. I wouldn't have them but I was a little eager beaver out there starving for miles knowing I'd be paid whether it was late or not. I'd rather have a slap on the wrist than have to tell my wife and son there is no money coming home this week because I turned down a load that lands on Wednesday so I could slam dunk another load that lands on Thursday and cannot tcall for pay this current week.

 

Now I find out we're on paperless in 8 days.