Elog cheat discovery

[preacherboy24]

I had a Qualcomm wire issue last week (I'm not running Qualcomm.....but the harness is still in the truck) and discovered something interesting. The hack job I did on trying to get the harness out of the truck left me with some bare wires hanging out the back of the sleeper. I drove it on our first salty road day and my message light came on the dash. I knew it was a Qualcomm harness issue but it ended up killing the communication between my ecm and dash to the point I had no oil, temp, volt, tac, and speedo.

On the way back to the shop I noticed something......my elog was on duty but not driving. As I was driving I put it into off duty and left it there. Yes.....I was moving 60mph down the road and the elog wasnt recording drive time. The 411 here is this wont help you drive from Chicago to Indianapolis because your gps will give location and I'm sure if you get checked they wont believe you had Scotty beam you over but it will help in a situation where you are parked and for some reason have to move the truck over 5mph to a better place a few miles down the road. I believe if you interrupt the speed sensor and cause the speedo not to register speed you can get away with this. I plan to try it since the elog doesnt record truck movement off the gps.