Would you leave Landstar if they require you to get eobr?

To be clear, we are not talking EOBR but the ability to update arrival, loaded, MT, etc and automatically transmit status to customers that have that requirement. We hare spending a significant amount of money to upgrade our dispatching and settlement system so that we can electronically send and receive load confirmations and update customers on driver status. But this will not be a requirement for our drivers just an option for those that are interested in doing Ford, GM, Nissan, and other expedite that has status update requirements.

But the units that we are going to test (Macropoint) are modified HTC cell phones that do not require install (window mount and cig adapter) and can be upgraded to EOBR if needed.

 

Sounds like a lot of interesting things are happening at F2F in the new year. I look forward to hearing more about it and seeing how it does.

 

Paperwork sucks but electronic tracking units that don't even prevent the thing they are being forced on the industry to prevent sucks even more.

 

I'm a new BCO hired on the Inway side I do have a EOBR in my truck . I'm still getting adjusted to it .my thing is that you have to micro manage your time so and if a shipper have you sitting and waiting your time is wasteing away . A few time I had to call agent to reset my appt time .becaue according to my EOBR ther is no driveing time. I guess it's not going to be long when everyone will have one so why leave landstar. To go some we're else then end up coming back to landstar. Go ahead and get your free EOBR B4 landstar make you and charge you. My 2 cents

 

I lease with a company and have eobr. I do well. My company and landstar have a lot of the same drop and hook freight. If I can do well leasing a truck with eobr, you should be fine owning a truck with no payment. I have gotten as much as 3600 miles in a week with them. I was skeptical at first, because I was mister 800 miles a day. Eobrs have forced me to relax more. I have less stress. Paperwork is a breeze. It is not as bad as it seems

 

I dont think alot of the isuue is the elogs. I think its we as people,who have choose to do our own thing, go out on a limb and look for our happiness, on our own. And then big brother says whoa, you can either put this in your truck or leave. And i can tell you me personally when face with altimatoms as such, i tend do go against the grain.

In the word of vanzant from the song "nobbodys gonna tell me what to do"

'Cause there ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.
I spent most of my life a-wrapped up tight,
In somebody else's hand-me-down old shoes.
Startin' today, I'm someone I'd be proud to know:
You might tell me where to go,
But there ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do.

 

IMO...I think the EOBR evens the playing field for those that dont run illegal.. no more double logs..

 

Multiple books will get you into trouble....

2 words

Loose leaf

 

I am a 59 yo lazy semi retired driver that has NEVER ran two log books. Not that much of a "hustler". Just make a decent living has always been my goal; If getting rich was my ambition, I PROMISE you I would not attempt it in a truck.
O/O leased to a carrier that ASKED me to go electronic May 2012. Fairly sure that we are totally EOBR now (company trucks and O/Os), but IIRC I was the 3rd O/O to switch. Recently did an 8 month earnings comparison; May-December 2011 and May-December 2012. Not a big difference in miles, but my bottom line was 32% LESS in 2012! Another surprise, I not only earned less money, I spent quite a bit more time on the road to earn less money! I also find myself driving under pressure, something I hate, and breaking the law MORE due to EOBR, (rolling stops, exceeding the speed limit by 1 or 2 mi over, that sort of thing I used to not do.) simply to try to get the most driving i can within my allowed 11.
I did log illegally in the past, drive 11.5, maybe 12 hrs, then log 11 for things like getting to a rest stop I liked; maybe to pass thru that city and avoid the morning traffic, things like that.
logging on paper, I could, and often did drive over 11, but did so in a safer, more leisurely manner.
That option does not exist now; what replaced it is tailgating, rolling stops at stop signs, speeding, pulling out in front of traffic that I would otherwise have waited on, trying to keep up the average, all for LESS $$$$, and MORE time on the road.
I wonder if Big Brother could look at my before and after, and congratulate themselves for making me a "safer" driver?

 

Right there with you. Much more relaxed now running on paper than I was last year on EOBR.