Elog cheat discovery

[Rawze]

(12-17-2017 )JMBT Wrote:  Wow! Rawze, Thanks for sharing the WRI link and info. I had no idea that was happening. That is some of the most disturbing and disgusting information I have heard to date about this ELOG crap. Almost makes you want to look for a new career, and I don’t even run illegal! My wife and I team and are never in danger of running out of hours. It is just merely the principle of it all! How in the world does that NOT violate “unlawful search and seizure” legislation?? Basically, as a trucker, we are being “investigated” for a crime, before there is even probable cause that one has been committed! Almost as if they are saying, we are all guilty because we are truckers?? WTF!! That should not be legal in a supposedly free country!

It is legal because trucking falls under international maritime laws.

I watched a siminar back in 2010 bragging about some kind of web based software where law enforcement can open a web page on their laptop in the dash, have a radio device that transmits a signal for every passing vehicle starting with big-rig trucks, and they can put into the web page criteria like "the speed traveled through a construction zone 50 miles away" and then it will sit there and scan every truck passing and alert the officer the speed and violation of each passing truck. they also showed an example where they made it show if the truck was on its last 2 hours of its driving shift to alert the officer so he can see if your paying attention to traffic ahead, or if your fatigued. It also showed other data like the heat on your brakes and hubs when it was scanned as you passed a "speed-sense" point that had thermal imigaging, how worn the pads were, how much fuel you had in the tank to see if you fueled when you say you did, etc. when a particular vehicle was singled out.

It was all in the venue of increasing truck inspections with a final goal of more than 3 million inspections a year. This was back in 2010 and they had already started implementing the first stages of this. it went on to talk about what they called "speed-sense" embedded into the roadways in the western states. - Most don;t pay attention to them but they are the devices that you see in the absolute middle of nowhere where there is a small strip plate in the road and some posts beside it with what looks like tiny radar unit looking white box. Those units, some of them can take thermal pictures of your brakes and tires as you pass, measure your weight to see if your load has shifted since the last time you got checked, compare your speed between one sense station to another, and all sorts of crazy crap. They are all over the states now in the least expected places. If you have an EOBR, they will compare your position, GPS position, and weigh your truck, clock your speed from one "speed-sense" outpost to the next, etc.



there is very little info these days out there for these systems. Here is one of the sensors in the pavement you see often...
http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/9/2053/htm
and some related info...
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformati.../index.cfm

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...121000004X

http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/1/107/htm


Some of the mega-fleets were even guinea pigs for these systems. I know that U.S. express was volunteering for it in Tennessee as far back as 2008.

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The ELD and eventual EOBR mandates are a small tiny part of a REALLY REALLY BIG PUSH that they can't implement all at once,. but have decided to implement over a several year span so no one can/will complain. that is how most things go these days. Do s$it over a several year span and very slowly so that no one has a say in it until after its too late.