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

Can you point me to the exception, in the regs, for reefers?

 

Very well said, exactly what I was trying to explain!

 

Exactly! That's why elogs and tacho's are a bad idea!

 

Then I guess I'll just have to continue to be smarter and more resourceful than the FMCSA auditors and their softwre. For Example: I've always been smart enough to know that you can't legally log or drive from Minneapolis to Downtown Chicago in 6 hours or less. Some drivers will swear up and down that you can though, even after a huge fine and OOS sticker hangs in their windshield in the corner of the inspection lot as they catch up on some sleep...

I know my physical limits, not the FMCSA. I am not an outlaw and WILL continue making good money doing what I do. A good thing is it will weed out some of the blatantly stupid and dangerous companies and drivers, the bad news is we will keep wasting more and more taxpayer money doing it.

 

Amen brother. "But the government came up with the bright idea of elogs, so they MUST be safe..."

 

Actually, Werner Company came up with them first.

 

I also agree in principle but would like to see some more built in flexibility. Once I was 45 minutes from home and out of hours. I went home and cleaned up the log later. E Logs would prevent that.

 

You're right there! Ours record everything, time, speed, distance, other work and sleep , pain in the a... too, you could be done for a time infringement or speeding a year later!

 

what regs? for reefers? everyone knows that reefer freight works around the clock.

you won't find many flatbed or tanker loads unloading or loading past closing time. yet reefers seems to have appointments all hours of the night.

 

You've never seen the gas/fuel delivery done outside of the 9-5 shift? What about the "milk man"? I see them on the highways at all hours!

C'mon driver.....when I pulled reefer, if I was on e-logs half the loads wouldn't get picked up on the schedule they tried to insist on...add to that, the delivery in many cases would have had to be rescheduled another day out from original plan. 8 p/u's, 2 drops...with 800 miles+ on the dispatch...for next day?