Electronic Logs: A Minor Change.

I watched a video message from Swift's main office today about the logs. It seems the feds have made a change through the e-log companies, but did not tell the trucking companies about drive time compared to non drive time.

If you have non drive time, either on duty not driving or off duty, that must be at least 5 minutes for it to count. Anything less, the e-log machine you use will make it disappear and you will have continuous drive time.

For example, you arrive at a shipper , and spend three minutes to unhook a trailer, then begin driving again. Once you start driving again, that 3 minutes of on duty time will disappear and will be marked as drive time.

The Swift person in the video said that this modification was a new thing even for the company - they did not know about it until a few days ago.

Also, suppose you start your off-duty break, then decide to move across the parking lot, and stop again. It's possible that your move will be marked as driving and the first part of your break will disappear and become drive time.

Interesting... Thanks for this info Errol!

I posted earlier about a Quallcomm problem I was having but it turns out it is all related, I was starting to drive right as my clock hit the 30 minute mark for my break, I was told if you start driving right at that time it will revert back to the previous minute (29) so I wait till 31 minutes now and no problems

QC Screenshot posted three days ago

Ignore the, "all are effected in the same manner." That hurts everyone's head.

Have the changes to your e-log affected your ability to putt-putt as well?

Making time "disappear"! What will the government do next? Just log everything as it happened, stop messing with the truth. We're all on the slippery slope of stupidity!

QC Screenshot posted three days ago

Ignore the, "all are effected in the same manner." That hurts everyone's head.

Have the changes to your e-log affected your ability to putt-putt as well?

I think so. Last Tuesday night I tried putting about half a mile, all < 6mph. When I was done, I had driven that half mile!

Prime's qcomms have worked like that for the year and a few months I've been here. Anything less than five minutes defaults to the new line you are on. On-duty for 4 min then select off-duty and in 1 min it will show 5 min off-duty.

The reason for this (just my opinion) is to prevent drivers from "cheating," like driving at 29 minutes instead of 30, driving half a mile "off duty driving," then half a mile "on duty," but NOT on the drive line in order to NOT trip your 14 hour clock.

An example would be to get from the truck stop in Olney, Illinois, to the Walmart DC, which is just under a mile.

Dave

The reason for this (just my opinion) is to prevent drivers from "cheating," like driving at 29 minutes instead of 30, driving half a mile "off duty driving," then half a mile "on duty," but NOT on the drive line in order to NOT trip your 14 hour clock.

An example would be to get from the truck stop in Olney, Illinois, to the Walmart DC, which is just under a mile.

Dave

I was taught to take advantage of that. Oh well!

I was also. I'm on paper logs, so I don't worry. The only thing that would trip me up is fueling.

Dave