Tracking who uses EOBRs

hurry and run and catch the ball

and to make things interesting, lets chain your leg and tie one hand behind your back

and if you are doing EXACTLY what we say, lets see you do it while balancing a ball on your nose

 

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The particular shipper I mentioned doesn't time stamp the BOL when you leave their facility. A preloaded trailer there has a time stamped BOL when the spotted trailer was loaded only. You can't imagine why the DOT might call to verify when the load actually left the facility if he is checking a drivers paper logs?

 

EOBR is not the problem the 14 hour clock is.If a driver wants to take 24 hours to do 600 miles it should be nobody's business.How many times have you awaken in the Morin and felt you needed a power Nap?With the 14 hour rule you stop you lose.

 

Plus I'm talking about a load the driver is currently under.

 

Yeah, it'd be a lot better if we had the old HOS rules, that 14 hr clock combined with a rigid timekeeper is not kosher.

 

Awesome!! ...and then, if you can do it 100,000,000,000 times in a row, we will give you a token you can use to buy one of the items in our catalog...

 

I only ever do such a thing to prove a point. I do not like being told "well you have X number of hours left, why are you not moving? Its already 0800, why aren't you rolling yet?" Plus, in certain areas of the country, experience shows that dispatch can do some asinine things. For example, I would often end a day in New Jersey or Baltimore and be comfortably parked at a truck stop by 1630-1700ish only to get dispatched on a load that had a pickup appointment at 1900-2000 nearby. When I tried to turn down the load, the answer would be something like "Well your 14 doesn't end until 2100 so you have the hours to go make that pickup." Then my reply would be "Yeah and after I sit at that shipper for 2-3 hours, where the hell am I gonna go to park up here in the Northeast?"

Bottom line, not all drivers are lazy idiots. Not implying that you feel this way, just that many suits at carriers believe so. Sometimes there is a method to our madness and things are done for a reason.

 

Now this comment exhibits total nonsense. How does one need to "count the seconds" in a truckstop or any other place that a driver is shutting down that is on e-logs? Once the person gets off the road, they can go to off duty, or even off duty driving if they had to, and drive all around a truckstop lot, take all kinds of time parking, and whatever. The box stopped "counting the seconds" the second the driver selected off duty. And that driving around the truckstop lot doesn't take away from the 10 hr break either. This is what I meant by foolish comments being made by folks who haven't a clue what the e-logs are and how to use them. Just more fear of the unknown coming out.

 

Excellent post.