Comments By Attila

Probably Memphis, not sure if there are smaller yards closer to you. You can set your home terminal anywhere, it does not effect your hometime or where you park the truck.

I look forward to reading your journals. This is a good career especially once you start figuring out what you really want from it.

Bret that last post was directed at your query. Pressed the wrong quote button, guess my programming is getting rusty :-P

I had a recent conversation about this topic with another driver, and he made the observation that some companies may be encouraged by the FMCSA to install dash cams, based on their CSA score. In other words, it could be a condition that they would be encouraged to meet, in order to get their CSA score acceptable again. I have heard that some companies installed Qualcomm fleet wide for the same reasons.

If that were the case, you couldn't really blame the carrier, if their back was against the wall. All the better reason to research a company's CSA score and track record before applying for employment.

I'm not in favor of the dash cams, but I thought I would throw the possibility for motivation into the discussion. After all, this thread could use the bump.

It does not matter what type of tech you throw at a problem. Tech is only as good as the people operating it. There is no such thing as a secure network, it's only as secure as the people who operate it. I have a CS degree and many years in the industry. When I first started out I thought like you did. Tech can fix problems as long as I can debug the code. I quickly learned tech, especially software and electronics works more like a human language, less like a wrench. Is this tech coming, you bet it is. How is it going to be used? What limitations are we to put on it? The Gen Y is probably much more comfy with cameras since they were born with them in thier face and all thier life. That's fine, just not with me.

I had a recent conversation about this topic with another driver, and he made the observation that some companies may be encouraged by the FMCSA to install dash cams, based on their CSA score. In other words, it could be a condition that they would be encouraged to meet, in order to get their CSA score acceptable again. I have heard that some companies installed Qualcomm fleet wide for the same reasons.

If that were the case, you couldn't really blame the carrier, if their back was against the wall. All the better reason to research a company's CSA score and track record before applying for employment.

I'm not in favor of the dash cams, but I thought I would throw the possibility for motivation into the discussion. After all, this thread could use the bump.

SWIFT's CSA score has recently dropped to B status. What you have said plus California legalizing driver surveillance in commercial vehicles (I think) has given the green light for this. Like I said, lots of old truckers running SWIFT. I would think for one trucker to enforce this on another, things would have to be desperate or mandated by the FED.

Is there a minimum length for the pretrip? What is the range for a pretrip?

I do mine at 15 min most vets tell me DOT wont mess with you on 12 min or more.

Thanks, will look out for those errors.

Loads have been a bit wacky lately and having to do splits more. I have two questions. First, do I need to log a pretrip when I start my second cycle? Second, I read here or somewhere that if you have too many splits on your 8 days that DOT can nail you on it. Is this true?

LoL WoW. I needed the laugh, thanks.

I remember those days, not to long ago. They will level out more as time marches on. It's funny but after being out here so much then going home, all those things that annoyed you are not even on your radar anymore. In a few months the things that are yanking you around like a yoyo will not even be noticed.