Why CSA 2010 and E-Logs are a good thing.

Can I use this for a signature?

 

Do NOT hold your breath !!!

 

e logs will not bring you more money,just more time away from home,i run paper been at this a long time i sleep when tired drive when not,hey i can even goof off if i want.ive said it before all you new drivers are clown look at how you treat each other on road,look at the trucks,beat up banged up they have hit everything around them.the reason us drivers got into trucking cuz we loved it the freedom to stop when you want do what you want,not punch a clock.after all the years driving i dont have the problems with the 4 wheelers like new drivers do i dont cuss other drivers (although they cause more problems than cars)you drivers that aint got a clue are unsafe.you drivers took a proud profession and turned it into a circus run by clowns........

 

I have been hearing this same line of thinking for 30 years !!!

Every time they bring out a new regulation that is going to clean up the outlaw trucker !

They said that about the CDL, they said that about the new hours of service ,band they even have people that believe that the June safety blitz makes the highways safer!!!

You will never get rid of outlaw trucking companies!!!!

The shippers don't care if the companies follow the rules all they want is their freight delivered !

The government don't want to get rid of outlaw companies any worse than they want to stop drugs because if they get rid of them than who are they going to save us from ?

This is just one big game everyone is playing . Everyone needs everyone else for them to have the job that they have.

If there is no freight there is no trucks if there is no outlaws there is no need for the police to save us ! It is just one big circle !!!!

I will be glad when the new hours of service save us from all these sleepy truckers killing the poor defenseless civilians in their cars!

Now that will clean up this industry !!!

Just another day of fun and games on the playground of life .

 

Apparently your carrier hasn't been audited lately . FMCSA auditors use software that will catch the logbook lies that have been getting by your safety department .

 

From what I hear, the companies can manipulate the elogs which sounds like it will be business as usual for them and worse conditions for us...

 

I will tell you what, I have NEVER been put out of service, I have only had 1 violation during a dot inspection and that was for the brakes being out of adjustment right after our shop just got done putting all new brakes etc in the trailer the day before. Silly me for not double checking their work.

I run legal when I can, which is most of the time, but there are just some runs that I can't do unless I am playing with my log book a little. That particular run takes me from home here on the East side of ND to the very west edge of ND then back to the east side to unload and then home again. A tad over 700 miles according to my odo in the truck.

Elogs and the current HOS regulations would keep me from leaving early and taking my time getting to a load point and taking my time getting back on some of our runs. See I like to leave early on some of our runs, take my time, drive like a human, which saves on fuel, maybe stop for lunch etc and still make my scheduled load time and my scheduled unload time. Being able to take my time makes me a better safer driver then if I was to run like a chicken with my head cut off trying to stay within Elogs.

See CSA2010 doesn't really bother me that much. The thought of mandated E logs bothers me greatly. I think CSA2010 should be good enough to weed out the bad apples in the trucking industry.

Come up my way and spend 1 year in my shoes doing what our company does and you would be seeing it my way for sure.

 

The days of "outlaw trucking"( just doing what the job requires) as you call it will never be over I don't care what your CDL school instructor told you.. if some of You brainless blind leading the blind steering wheel holders need your hand held all day everyday that's fine but some of us are big boys and don't need it... Do you need help wiping your ### too? I have yet to see CSA2010 Have any affects on anything, so keep being scared, and praise all the stupid laws they want to put into affect, it's doing nothing but turning this industry into a bunch of pansies... Come on and jump in my truck for a few days I'll show you what the real world is like.....

 

About a month ago I had 55 hours logged in and was off from Monday night until Wednesday. I was asked to start a local run Wednesday that had to leave a few hours before I had my 34 in for restart . Right after I did my tractor pretrip I got an e-mail that the load had been cancelled . Dispatch said now I'd have my restart in . When I said I had gone on duty to pretrip I was told to note a log error then to log off . The powers that be entered my pretrip as an error and I got my restart .
A couple of hours later a driver was needed for a 10 day trip to New Brunswick and back . They had me .