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

It seems to me that anyone who forces a driver to violate the HOS rules is interfering with interstate commerce and should face some consequences.

 

Anyone who lets a shipper or receiver dictate their HOS out of the normal HOS needs to grow a backbone

 

While I do agree, this thread was waking up the dead as it was over 4 years old.

 

Sad part is that the problems for drivers when these things happen are going to come from the widget in the safety dept. They'll be punishing drivers for things like driving to parking after getting caught for hours and hours behind an accident. They won't care how well documented it is, what the driver did won't fit it any HOS box they have (the safety dept. is little more than private entity bureaucrats, after all,) and the driver WILL pay the price for that.

There's a form being passed around on ELD or Me that some driver made up to 'protect' drivers who are forced to move by an LEO. As I posted over there: "Finally something to replace having to call the U.S. Marshal!"

 

Got a copy of that form?

For,,, umm,,, research,,, for a,,, friend.

 

I have had to move after my 14 is up. I document all the issues including tome ad location at that time. My company's log and safety department has never busted my balls about it. They just call to verify everything. They want the documentation in their records in case of an audit.

 

Probably on their Facebook page. I don't do Facebook or Twitter so I don't keep up on the ELD or Me thing. Been on Elogs for 7 years and have most everything figured out. And that is the key.... document, document, document.

 

I'll see if I can get it uploaded later today

 

Which is how it should be handled, but won't be by some of these carriers.

 

*Almost guaranteed to have been approved by a back row truck stop lawyer.