ELD mandate

[Waterloo]

I'm with Hammer, use this as a tool to beat them over the head. All I can see is lost revenue and major disruptions. I routinely see guys running out of hours sitting in the docks up here in Michigan at the Automotive Suppliers and Plants. When the lines go down, the losses can be staggering. I am hoping the inflexible HOS are addressed, because that is the real issue, not the logging device.

The other issue I see coming, is the financial storm until all of this is ironed out. My equipment is paid for, house is paid for, no credit cards, etc just a Chevy truck lease, utilities and insurance. VA will have to pick up the health insurance. I can afford a hit to the wallet in the short term, how many guys here can do that while they sort out this mess they are creating?

Also, how many of you will take a 34 hour break at that truck stop 100 miles from your house? Or even closer? I see a real driver shortage coming, along with serious supply chain/logistics disruption, and I hope it is ugly as Hell when it happens. Maybe someone in DC will wake the F up. Face it, most of the freight and goods is moved in this country by guys and gals like everyone here, not the mega carriers.

And then the safety issues... Playing beat the clock with a big truck is never a good thing. Now multiply that... I see real death and carnage on the roadways a coming. I'm already seeing it out here, idiots driving like idiots, and there are seemingly a lot of them in the recent months. I have lost track of the times I have nearly been run over at a fuel island. Oh, and how about parking? This is not going to be pretty. Oh, and that 1/2 hour break, right in the middle of a critical freight run... Oh man...

On a side note, I was sitting here in this truck stop last week. I was talking with a Swift driver here in the lot. He was parked next to a reefer unit that was rather noisy which he complained about. I told him to just move his truck... Easy thing to do, eh? He couldn't, he said the second that truck moves his clock will start. Can't make this sheet up. Driver shortage coming? LOL!

We shall see, my company is starting the implementation in their company trucks over in Canada, and from what I hear it has not been pretty. Not that they run illegal, far from it, it is the inflexibility down here that has them stumped and trucks sitting when they could be working. Financially, it has been a loser for them.