After running with elec. logs for a year, it has it's ups and downs for sure. I've had to sit at a receiver for 5 hours once and had a pick up just 6 hours in time, a truck stop 1 mile down the road, thought I could get a 10 hour break and make a good run. That didn't happen at all! The thing put me on line 3 (regardless of the tricks I tried to keep it on line 1 or 4) but also kept me on driving time for 30 minutes after shutting down, when it was only a few minutes to do it. Couldn't get safety to even take that 28 minutes off.

They also are very easy to use when your used to them and DOT doesn't really like messing with them. Takes alot of proper trip planning to be able to run them with loads. The company has a lot of drivers having to get repowered (or worse, disconnecting the QC to make p/u or deliver).

All in all, I'm just old school and like the flexibility of paper logs. Can still run legal, but if you need to make a little adjustment, you can.

 

I wished we would run completely paperless. We have both. Logs and Computers. Stupid. :roll:

 

That's PRECISELY what I've been thinking for a long time about these companies who use Qualcomm's, but also use paper logbooks. While the paperless logs don't keep the company 100% honest, I'd reckon it's a lot better than having guys who fudge paper logs all the time and getting away with it.

 

We don't have Qualcomm, but we have Symbol hand-held computers. They put them in our trucks, 3 or 4 years ago, and they told us, (at that time) that we will soon go paperless. How soon?