Only Townhall would print this garbage by some type of Big Trucking lobbyist because they dont get to cheat on log books like they used to. Now they cant claim they rested as the law requires when really they kept driving for greed and profit. This dirtbag representing dirtbag truck drivers should be held personally responsible for every 18 wheeler accident, of which there is one daily, and for all the death and injury caused by these slimeball trucks.
The big outfits in the trucking industry actually support the ELD mandate. They already use these types of devices for their own scheduling, dispatching and fleet management purposes. It’s the small independent operators who have been opposed to this from the start.
Some of this is garbage. Every company has GPS on their trucks so the boss knows if you are speeding....ie it is a no no. I am driving through a hilly portion of PA and trucks are breaking going down a hill. This never happened before....they would be flying....to get a runny up the next hill.
It is one reason there are trucking hubs showing up everywhere. Folks do four hours one way, turn around an haul something else back to their starting point.
Exactly.
You have to work harder to cheat Elogs.
A friend is a prosecuting attorney. Prior to this law, there were a great many truckers on meth (or other uppers) so they could drive more. Many fatal accidents had the truck driver test positive.
Now after that change, you don’t see it as often. Partially because you can’t cheat the logs. A friend of mine is a trucker, and while he says he isn’t making as much money as he used to, he isn’t working as hard to make the money he is making. No more 18 hour days of driving.
On my side of the equation, it means that when a truck is scheduled to pick up or drop off, we had better be ready to grab it. Makes the S/R people work a lot harder. Which isn’t a bad thing.
Bias much? Clueless people like you are the types whining to their reps that get a lot of these ignorant rules instituted - take that broad brush you paint with and shove it where the sun don’t shine. AAA, no fan of the trucking industry, did a study a number of years back, turns out that about 80% of accidents between trucks and automobiles are the fault of ... wait for it ... the AUTOMOBILES. Put that in your self-righteous peace pipe and smoke it.