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

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Theophilus, Nov 6, 2011.

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  1. 25(2)+2

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    Elogs have very little to do with the increased costs that I can foresee. Any alleged benefit could also be achieved at about the same cost, or less, in other ways. I don't miss having someone ask me why I was sitting somewhere I wasn't, either, the things aren't foolproof from my experience and anecdotal experience from others.

    Now, one more thing to complicate this further, does the E-log stay with the truck, in case of a loaner, or will the powers that be outlaw that practice, too? I have had to swap trucks 8 times in the past year and a half, for the record. It didn't always happen at home, either.
     
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    Interesting question.

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    Yeah, I guess. Sometimes trucks are disabled, might be an accident or a mechanical failure or planned maintenance, for me, it has been the last 2 of late, but a deer hit can disable a truck really quickly. So I guess you would have to keep proof of what you had been driving, and get printed logs, or do the old tried and true method of constructing replacements from trip notes. I do keep a notebook on my laptop.
     
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    Thats good autocar you run ur way ill run my way and as u say I could care less what u think or who u are period.
     
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    Not having one or ever been in one, this brings things to mind that have happened in the past.
     
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    Good point 25 and roadmedic. Is there a backup if electrical problem does occur say a data backup or would it wipe it out
     
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    I don't know about backup for Elogs, if the system goes down, I have read it can be manually caught up later, in the office. Quall-com was having troubles lately with the solar flares, but People-net was doing OK.

    I haven't so much as looked at one since towards the end of 2008
     
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    There are electronic backups for all logs, you can switch them from truck to truck electronically. They're actually really cool things. They don't, however, stop anyone from cheating. If you want to cheat you still can. Some of us (me) get paid to track compliance on eLogs. It's an awesome tool, addressing behavioral issues by reinforcing positives is our approach as opposed to punishing the negatives. It's a slow change but it seems to be effective. Safety is slowly changing from the "bad guy" to an ally for many drivers.
     
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    If it is in system (like inside a company) you can log in to a new truck and have that information available...I can log into any Titan truck and have my logs just like in my normal truck. In fact a little thing I learned trying to fax in another drivers paperwork is logging in to my truck will log you out of the other one.

    As far as rentals go we printed (faxed) a drivers prior seven and what he had of that day before going into the shop so he could go paper while in the Ryder rental. I could forsee in the future plug and play units so when getting a rental you could just log in.
     
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    So meltom it still can be accessed from the main frame computer so if the drivers truck has a say
    catastrophic failure in his truck he can call in an get a faxed report or can u reboot it in their trucks
     
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