I was called into my TM's office Friday and was told that I have an 80% compliance rate with my logs, he wants 100%. I guess I'm going to have to Flag all the Bathroom breaks, lunch breaks etc. I usually just subtract 15 to 30min from my log each night for random things. I always log fuel, PTI, shipper, consignee etc.

Guess I'm just going to have to log every single thing I do.

 

Where did they find the 20% non-compliance. I have never had an issue on my logs with superior.

I save every minute possible on my 70-hour, especially at shipper/consignee's - .25 IN, Sleeper, .25 OUT. Rarely, do I show more than a half hour Line 4 at Shipper/Consignee. Of course this was back in the good ol days (Jan, Feb, March). Running 700-miles a week makes the whole logging issue moot!

Again, I say rip out the OBC's and give us $30 bucks a month for "communication" reimbursements. We then go get throw-away cell phones.

Anyways, it would be nice to hear 'how' they busted you.

 

overly dramatic much?

 

You would be wrong about that, I already posted the explanation why on the other thread discussing this same thing.

 

The truckstop stories you hear may good chatter on the CB. But, companies spend millions of dollars on these systems, and again they are deadly accurate.

 

Again sir, I have programmed them, you are wrong.

 

Here, I will quote what I said on the other thread (not sure why the OP started a second thread for the same thing anyway)

 

I don't think I was busted technically. He just told me the deal about how they are starting to match our logs with the QC. I'm pretty sure everyone has to go in and talk with our TM in Atlanta.

They are watching us very closely and from now on I will be 100% compliant.

 

I don't understand your point. You can only use the "dang sunspots acting up again" excuse so many times.

I stand by my original comment that anecdotal evidence to the contrary is not going to hold water when your log doesn't match the GPS. And yes, we have all heard about the driver getting dinged because the log auditing program didn't recognize different time zones. These rare exceptions are subject to "upon further review, we aren't going to fire your sorry butt."

GPS is here to stay, by any statistical measure it is deadly accurate. Like any other mechanical device or technology it will have an occasional glitch. But, like it or not it is the Measuring Stick. If you can't work within them parameters, then you better find one of the 6 truck companies that don't use the technology.

Next will be full OBC's that record every possible parameter of the truck's operation - just like in commercial aircraft.

Bring on the electronic logs that automatically put me on line 3 when the brakes are released, and a pressure sensitive mattress that puts me on line 2.

My only challenge now is juggling the 7th and 8th minute. Heck you can shave an easy hour a day by juggling your starts and stops using the 7/8 technique!

 

I do drive for one of those '6 truck' companies thank you very much. But your point of deadly accuracy is completely wrong. Sorry, but given raw NMEA data produced by a GPS receiver, the location swing can easily be in the miles radius! Modern navigation GPS uses very sophisticated and not so sophisticated mathematical formulas to stabilize the signals to make it more accurate, which is also usually suplimented with WAAS to help it out. Devices such as qualcomm more often then not don't even use these stabilizers because those devices do not need the accuracy a navigation device does, it's purpose is solely to give someone the ability to know it's general location. Even surveyors do not use GPS for surveying because they are just not accurate enough! There are special GPS receivers that surveyors use that cost upwards of $5000, but even that is not used for the survey itself, but to give a rough outline for them to make the actual survey quicker using more accurate means.

When I was with swift, they have it programmed into the QC that you cannot send a Macro for arriving at shipper/consignee unless you are within a certain distance, I would say about 30% of the time, I had to send my DM either a QC message or call him to do it for me because the stupid system would not recognize me being there, and his usual response would be, "The system says you are 100 miles away", and that is not exaggerated, it ranged anywhere from 1 mile away to 500 miles away one time. Sorry, but that is NOT accurate enough to really enforce the concept.

I remember the funniest time was I was delivering to Florida, and the QC showed me being in the middle of the gulf!

Now they could make them more accurate if they wanted too however, and I suspect that with this new enforcement method, the device manufacturers will now incorporate a lot of the techniques used by navigational GPS devices.

BTW if you don't believe that solar flares effects technology, I have seen my own navigation GPS tell me I was 150 miles away and trying to route me from there during a fairly minor solar flare about a year ago. Not that long ago a solar flare temporarily disabled a handful of satellites used for communications too.