ELECTRONIC lOG BOOKS

[PorkChop81]

Thanks,

I'm checking it out right now. Any other log programs that can help me calculate any errors and my time gained and all that good junk???

Chop

[kahlana]

I know just the guy/gal( don't know which--and since i've been getting it trouble-best to play it safe.

YOU get in trouble ??? perish the thought :wink:

So.....where you and bro gonna be driving out of (excuse me- where will you
brother be driving- you riding out of) :wink:
P.S. more pics of J.W.'s mullet are on the way...stick around and don't be a stranger.......

sorry i missed this somehow Head... we'll be out of Swifts Denver terminal.. and somewhere around here i post his truck number.. on the one Roses started about CB handles.... and please please please dont post more picks of the mullet.. he looks way too much like my ex... lol
i dont think im stranger than anyone else here :twisted: :shock:

[kahlana]

i talked to a guy who was the safety officer for another company and he reccommended that when i start driving that i get it if for nothing else than to keep a more "foolproof" tab on my logbook... sort of back up i suppose

[headborg]

i talked to a guy who was the safety officer for another company and he reccommended that when i start driving that i get it if for nothing else than to keep a more "foolproof" tab on my logbook... sort of back up i suppose

doe this mean that You or your brother have a laptop computer? so, you won't be dropping off the face of cyber-space when you "hit the road"?

[thebobguy]

Just started using DDL because my company will now use the print outs, it is very nice and agree with most of you, will never go back to paper logs!

[thebaldeagle655]

Just started using DDL because my company will now use the print outs, it is very nice and agree with most of you, will never go back to paper logs!

Just wait until your power supply goes out or for some other reason your laptop quits and you have to go back to paper. You will REALLY APPRECIATE DDL then!

[thebobguy]

Always have a paper log for backup no doubt, nothing in life is guarnateed. Just trying to help, you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink. Wlecome to the 21st century!

[Cat6869]

Always have a paper log for backup no doubt, nothing in life is guarnateed. Just trying to help, you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink. Wlecome to the 21st century!

G-R-E-A-T TIP! Also do a back up of the program on a thumb drive or disk @ least weekly or less.

[Texas88]

My son Emails me the data files every week from DDL. He has two laptops with him, one for his wife, and copies the files to that one almost everyday
I have the data files on my backup drive also, from the last 2 1/2 years.
It's called CYA.......... :wink:

[kc0iv]

As I said in an earlier post each day I would printout that day's log. I also make a backup copy on my disk drive ( later used a thumb drive ) and every few days I would send the backup to my home e-mail address. The wife would update her copy of DDL data files.

If my computer system failed the most I would lose is what I had entered that day. I never did lose the laptop but I did have a printer fail. In that case I stopped at the next town and bought a new printer and I was back in business. Had I lost the laptop itself I would have just used loose-leaf log till I got home and bought or had the laptop repaired.

Backing up data, be it DDL or any other programs data, should be a normal habit. As I used to tell my customers when they ask how often they should make a backup. I would ask them how much data are they will to lose. It normally only took one time after they lost all their data for them to get the idea.

As a side note. I talked to a driver once that left his logbook at a truckstop and lost everything. That was before I was using DDL. After hearing that I started removing each page of my logbook as I filled them out and kept them separate from the logbook.

kc0iv

[srytrucker]

Cpx trucking used e logs on their gps dispatch system and most drivers tell the same story as soon as dot hears e logs they do not even ask for prints outs etc ... as in their system the dot officer has to provide an email address and the dispatch send electronic delivery of logs via email...so they are good to go on i-5 from bc to califorina