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Originally Posted by allan5oh
A company is essentially required to use every tool under its power to ensure you're logging legally, otherwise they're setting themselves up for a huge lawsuit.
Could you just see it now? Huge fatal accident, involving a truck. Turns out the truck may have been running over hours.
Lawyer to company representative :
"So you guys use the qualcomm system, we know it logs where the truck is, do you use this system to match the logbooks of the driver, to ensure compliance?"
"no"
case closed.... multi-million dollar settlement....
How common is this, then?
Also, we don't use qualcommon. But they put these transponders on the trailers.
Seriously, we all know logbook rules are rough and they'll never know when a driver is actually tired and when he's actually alert like the driver himself can judge. Arguments can be made in favor of logbook rules, but they contradict the way I like to run and what I'm comfortable with. It's one thing to make us do logs that generally reflect what we've done, it's another thing to computer and satelite check them minute by minute. I hate it, but like everyone else, I'll do what I have to do.
