Quality Carriers threatening to match logs to satelite transponders
 

Welcome, Big Brother!

And DOT being able to acess your qual com as you drive thry the scales ain't far off either I'd bet.

Hope they have plenty of drivers....they gonna need 'em if they start that

I assumed any company that uses Qualcomm/transponders was already doing that.

The last time I had Qualcomm they weren't. A friend of mine used to drive for JB and he was always having trouble with the Qualcomm and logs, so maybe some are.

I stop and go, take breaks, nap, use the internet...it's going to be a pain if I've got to record every little thing I do and it's going to mess with the way I like to drive.

Most I reckon like a comapny I worked for used the qwual com just to keep up with equipment and communicate with drivers.....or so they said.

Couse I know of 2 companies right off that would have to hire a wad of drivers and buy more equipmnet if they started running legal, bet you do too.

I probably don't do 2,000 miles a week, yet I like to relax when I want to relax and drive when I want to drive. I could spend a lot of time just drawing little lines if I have to record everything. They've taken away split logging, nobody sleeps for 10 hours but some of us need to sleep a little during the day!

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.

Unfortunately it doesn't matter when you're tired, when you're not tired, when you can run, or when you cannot run.

What matters is, if your logbook is legal or not. Have you broken federal laws?

I don't think lowrange is interested in cheating, my guess is he doesn't want to fool with having to draw a line for every 15-minute catnap, etc.