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

What you posted in red goes out of the barn in a shovel, I run paper and as many others that statement is a joke. Pushing that cool-aid on people that are naive my work with some.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that every driver will be more compliant. The industry as a whole will be much more compliant. Elogs are not a cure all for trucking. I've stated before that I don't think that everyone needs to be forced on them. Elogs do however help to bring issues to light and allow safety guys, the ones trying to ruin your career, to address these issues before the become habits (or if they are habits to start laying groundwork to change those habits). I don't feel that anyone needs to loose their job because they run non-compliant either. When we switched we had several drivers with 40 plus years of experience some that had never seen a people net or a cell phone. We understood that these drivers might need additional time to adapt to the changing ways. We worked with them and provided a support structure to fit their needs when they needed it. One guy called it quits about a full year, but that was partially because they stopped running him only to FL and back. The others are still around and hardly ever violate their HOS.

 

I think it is funny when I drive by a truck in the ditch and it says, Driver using Electronic Logs on the side of the tractor. From November to Feb, in my area, you can see all the Safe Elog trucks easily. many of them are parked in the median or the ditch with snow pushed up over their hoods. The non elog trucks are usually still rolling just moving slower since they don't have to have a drag race with some electronic device ont he dash of the truck.

 

I laugh when I hear drivers whining on the C.B. about being stuck in traffic and out of hours.

 

Oh boy now we will hear about how that driver didn't pre-plan properly and that he should have stopped an hour BEFORE his hours were up and found him a safe place to park...

 

he had to stop or else his computer-codriver would have ratted him out to the company for driviing 5minutes over his 11

this is the future, soon, they will put a camera in your bunk and measure your sleep patterns, if you get up before the legal 8hr required sleep, your computer will say "mr volvo, please return to your bunk, your movement has been reported"

 

No he will be getting a message say he will go blind if he keeps that up.

 

Read some of the post people put up, our crystal ball should be firmly mounted and capable of knowing every situation possible.

 

like every other encounter

bills with wrong names
bills with wrong addresses
warehouse is 5 miles further
streets with no names
buildings with no numbers
buildings with no names
buildings with different names

add this to the list

 

Extreme Sarcasm >That is the drivers fault, you should have checked your bills and confirmed everything. < Extreme Sarcasm