Swift Paperless Log

Its a matter of time, it'll be a federal requirement before long, since it will be very difficult to cheat it.

I have worked with electronic logs before. It did not log driving time under a certain speed and if another condition was met, I cannot remember what that is now. So you will be able to move around a parking lot as long as you arent doing 30 or 40 around the lot.

 

I was on e-logs over at Prime. it did not log you onto the driving line until you hit 5mph, drove 2 miles or 5 minutes. It logged minute-by-minute.

From what I see here at Swift, there won't need to be many changes in how loads are scheduled. These loads have more than enough time on them to get them done within an honest log. As said in other threads, though, trip planning is what will make or break you with e-logs.

This is not to say I am in favor of them. I do not want the intrusion any more than anyone else does and would be perfectly happy without the GPS capability of the QC. Not because I have anything to hide, but because I just think I deserve privacy and trust to do my job. What irritates me, though, is this is aimed at big companies that already have, for the most part, working safety departments overseeing logs and supposedly ensuring compliance. Many, many mom n pop or single-truck operations do not and just do whatever they want to. While I don't think it is right to mandate something without funding it, I also don't think it's right to make different rules for someone based on how successful they have managed to be. E-logs, in my opinion, should only be mandated for those operations that have proven their inability or unwillingness to understand and follow HOS regulations.

Besides: what are all of those unemployed log department folks going to do?

 

I totally agree here, the only places e-logs should be mandated is were that kind of oversight has been proven to be needed due to poor safety records, gross log violations and the like. I plan to be an O/O one day and I have to tell ya if I am mandated by Big Brother to place e-logs in my truck I won't like it.

 

Injun, when you were at Prime, did your E-logs contain a line 5 for using the truck as personal conveyance. We did at SNI. Only the O/O's had the line 5. We could b/t around without it going against our 70. Wonder if we will have it here.

 

Yes, I had line 5 off-duty driving. I used it whenever I was doing stuff for my own purposes, whether dispatched or not. Never caught any grief over it from Prime or DOT.

 

I'm a Swiftie now, darlin. It just didn't work out over there. Ask IronPony about my Prime 'tude.

 

took a class this weekend and was told syracuse is the last terminal to get the new qualcomms and once the new qualcomm is instaled e-logs activate on your truck. but they still want you to keep a paper log for the first week. also was told we wont be getting them till the end of the year.

 

Asked at OKC the other day. "next year" was the answer.