Elog cheat discovery

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Assuming you are not breaking any kind of laws, tampering with the speed sensor is one of the oldest things people have done to get around company truck governors. Although some are more lenient than others, all newer engines have settings in them to prevent this type of tampering. The red engines for example, it can be set lenient or very strict. It is usually only people who have had custom tuning done and those settings removed or reduced that get away with speed sensor tampering.

I am also not a proponent in cheating the ELD. -- I AM HOWEVER all for everyone getting together and demanding better HOS rules where drivers can take a nap and it not knock their 14-hour clocks di^k in the dirt. That has always been the biggest problem and it makes for extra tired drivers who are inherently less safe out on the roads. Sure, there are many drivers who can pull 11 hours a day every day of the week,.. but for every one of those drivers,.. there are three who get really really tired come that 9th, 10'th or 11'th hour and their pushing their 14 already from getting loaded, fueling, mandatory break, etc. earlier in the day.

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- We have a full-blown EOBR qualcomm unit. I have the power cables on a switch in the dash. the goddamn thing draws a continuous 8 amps from the batteries when it is on and I do not like that. it will drain your batteries in a day or 2 at most. The switch is for when we park and shut the truck down, but also for when the truck is home and it is getting worked on. Here is what I have found when a mechanic is driving the truck around town with the qualcomm off...


- If you turn it on and you are more than a mile or 2 away from the place you shut it down,.. it complains. If you park the truck in the same spot when you turn it back on than it was when you turned it off,.. it does not complain.

- If you re-flash the engine ECM with a program that has different trip data in it, it complains. It freaks out if the ODO mileage don't match its last recorded data OR if the fuel mileage, consumed gallons of fuel, average speeds, decel records, and other data suddenly don't add up against the ODO reading. - I get away with this because I own the truck and my carrier can't dictate what I do with the truck when servicing it. If I did something like changing the data/mileage/etc. and they saw this happen while I was under a load, I am sure it would be a serious problem real fast. Those units are not as stupid as people would think and neither is the DOT. I am sure they are going to be VERY watchful of tampering attempts in the near future, and it would not surprise me if they start connecting to trucks to get ECM data while they are at it.

With a qualcomm unit, i think people don't realize that DOT has complete access to its data through the qualcomm service on-line. They even know what your fuel mileage and other data is as you pass them at the scales. They know when the last time you were stopped and when you got fuel too.



Just some info related to this subject as i have seen so far, nothing more. I do not promote people doing something unsafe and driving against the HOS etc.