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

Aw shucks...could you be a bit more specific?

I don't get it!!!!

*if there ain't pictures...it didn't happen*

 

I'm thinking that's against the rules.





Don't tell the admin, but I've never read them.

 

With lot lizards and truckers,I don't want to see pics

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Who told you that you can't be away from a loaded truck? If you park your truck at a truck stop for the week end and go 5 miles away to the house that's abandonment? Leaving a loaded truck only applies to haz mat. If you run out of hours 20 miles from the house are you going to spend a 10 break in the truck or go on home? Rat is right. You need to forget about 80% of what you learned in truck driving school because only 20% is true to reality.

 

E logs and the CSA aren't going to clean up trucking or raise pay for those who hang in there. It's just going to give the government more reason to open the border to Mexican trucks to compensate for lack of American trucks and drivers thus lowering freight rates and drivers wages. Mexican drivers don't have the same requirements as we do. A government declared emergency is all it would take. E logs haven't been proven safer either, DOT officers have admitted when a truck rolls through a scale with the e logs on board sign they don't bother them. E logs don't mean compliance. As it has been stated e logs like any electronic device can be manipulated with out detection by a tech savvy person. Just another kneejerk government reaction trying to put a band aid on a bullet wound.

 

One more comment. Just because a company doesn't use sattelites or e logs doesn't mean they are an outlaw company. All that technology is expensive and requires additional staff which isn't feasable for companies with less than 30 or 40 trucks.

 

Neither do Canadian drivers! Completely different log situation for either...you forget that when the "foreign" truck enters the USA, they are required to follow the USA rules and regs.

10+ years in development, study, information/discussion, court challenges....hardly knee jerk!

The "old guns", and not just drivers, but non-compliant carriers brought this on themselves, now the industry as a whole has been saddled with the cause and effects. In theory it is legitimate, in practicality it is BS!

 

So you jerk you knee instead of... PG-13!!!

 

When did anything the government does help more than it hurts? By the way e logs are still being fought in court and are not yet mandatory. They have not been proven safer or otherwise. The American trucking association and the truckload carriers association are the biggest backers of e logs not for safety but for money by controling every last minute of drivers time. Who do they represent the large and mega large carriers. Like I said if a shortage of trucks and qualified drivers results from over regulation the government could declare an emergency and Mexican trucks could be brought in to haul freight at lower rates and wages without complying with regulations. I didn't forget about foriegn trucks meeting compliance rules under normal circumstances that's why I said under a declaration of emergency. Even if e logs work well or not (they don't) they shouldn't be made mandatory. Small companies and single truck operations handle freight the large carriers can't or won't do. You won't see Werner or JB Hunt picking up milk or grain at the farm or hauling asphalt to a jobsite. Hauling a new bulldozer or wind turbine parts to job site. Or hauling one truckload a week from a small factory. The big carriers don't touch that niche freight or accounts that small. The small carriers and single truck operations that do handle that stuff are too small to absorb the cost of the technology and additional staff to run it. But the country can't function without them so why force them out at a time when this country needs jobs. Again just because a company doesn't have satillites or e logs doesn't make them outlaws. Elogs are a one size fits all solution to a problem that comes in all sizes. And again e logs can be manipulated as easily as paper logs for a tech savy person. Point is they are not the solution. A better solution would be to find out why shippers and recievers take all day to load and unload trucks and change it then you could run legal on your hours and make pick up and deliverys. Australia just passed a law requiring shippers and recievers to unload or load a truck under 2 hours or pay severe fines (look it up)why can't we do that? By the way "old guns" or old school doesn't necesarily mean outlaw.

 

So much cloak and dagger bologna.. I love how some drivers who do not understand the elogs in the first place pretend that they can be "manipulated easily". The trucking companies are not even in charge of the information. Of course we're gonna drag the insidious Mexican trucker into the mix to get the rednecks interested.. It is the generic redneck supertrucker who have made all of these items necessary. Some people need to take off their "Smokey and the Bandit" footy pajamas, row up already and face the music. The trucker is their own worst enemy and always has been.