SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boy, you really have the answers.


So, you do what you say and on the way to the next truckstop you hit someone. Hope you like jail.

Apparently you have never been in that area.

 

I also remember it was all JB Hunt

 

There is no excuse for fudging log books.

Now, how do you park and leave if you have the electronic logbook?

I do not agree with parking in the handicapped spots, BUT.

How many wheel chairs have you seen like you mentioned?

How many truck stops actually have handicapped spots?

Better to have a tired trucker parked and off the road and not a danger to others.

But, you have your opinion and that is fine.

I see this getting worse with the EOBR's in the future.

 

Haven't seen that many with them but when there are I usually see a truck in them with a permit. I imagine the handicapped drivers know where they all are and aren't too impressed when they get there and the spot is taken by someone who shouldn't be in it.

 

True, but in all of the years out here, I have seen maybe 1 truck with the permit.

The EOBR is going to make this worse, because, you cannot tear the page out and make enough room to try another location.

Then again, maybe the truck parked there has a permit and you cannot see it because it fell down.

 

There's a couple spots I go where they have handycap spots and I almost always see trucks there with permits.

I guess my point is that finding a good spot to park can be hard enough for any of us, imagine how much more difficult it is for someone with limited mobility. I just couldn't see myself parking there.

 

There's usually a little latitude for say moving around a parking lot after your 11 or 14 has expired built into these systems, and its situations like this that require you to know just how much wiggle room your implementation of an EOBR or elog system will give you. Its never enough to get back on the road to move down to the next truckstop or rest area though. And when the violation alarm goes off (...sounds a lot like the bridge of the USS Enterprise right after the Klingons have started shooting photon torpedos!) you're going to get to explain this to someone...

If you're going to be on the road long enough for this to be an issue on any given day, then you need to have a plan to start with. The thing has a warning when your last legal hour is starting to burn down, and that's the time to find a parking spot, not when it's "T minus 5 minutes" to go. Its not fun watching those last few minutes tick off when you're too tired to be driving, in parking lots that are absolutely full.

 

Maybe on yours. The last one I dealt with flagged me for violations while parking. Backing in the spot.

 

That's definitely grounds for parking the truck at the closest terminal to your house and never coming back.

My company allows us 2 miles or 5 minutes, whichever is less. If you have to go 3 miles, you have to stop and shut the truck off every mile or so and it'll keep you in the sleeper. But we still have to listen to that annoying voice every time the truck stops and starts moving again, like if you're backing into a dock, doing pull-ups. Every time motion is detected it says "You are out of hours of service driving time". You can turn the volume down on it though.

 

What??? Ms Elogs is annoying???