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and the impact of electronic logbooks - drivers who could have driven an extra hour on Monday and an hour less on Tuesday now have to match their route and good
by dmckeon 8y ago
and the impact of electronic logbooks - drivers who could have driven an extra hour on Monday and an hour less on
Tuesday now have to match their route and good stopping places with the DOT hours structure, or face penalties
for violations.
For a person driving a car, a penalty
could be a fine and point(s) against their license, but
for a commercial driver, loss of their CDL would mean
changing careers.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoAll of the elogs are data mined big brother style. Guys who run the same route with the same cargo every week and usually get waved through weigh stations get stopped and checked out because they decided to take their bathroom break on a different leg of the route.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoInstead of punishing the individual driver (which is what's done), ought to heavily punish the company instead. Right now, a driver can get threatened and written up if they refuse to drive, even if they would be breaking the law. There's no repercussions for a company to process through drivers. If instead the DOT focused on the companies, they could turn the companies themselves into enforcers as well of the law. The only group that could fall through the cracks are owner/operators. They would still have a justification and reason to skirt the law and fake the logbooks.