Driving with Qualcomm unplugged

Ummmm

 

Lets see ...
Your the best truck stop cowboy at backing into a spot who wants to cut kingpins off dropped trailers and unplugs his eld.
Go back to your video games

 

Well.....to avoid all that from happening, you need to let your company know so they can get that fixed. Unplugging it can possibly make it go even more crazy.

 

If you unplug it put it off duty, then drive for a while to get home... when you get home plug it back in it will still say off duty, but at a new location... so if you ever got inspected he might ask how did you get to a new location off duty...
I would then say my eld malfunction so here is my paper logs... just to cover yourself..

 

The Qualcomm keeps a record of “unlogged miles”. We used to occasionally pull the fuse, run an extra hour past lunch, then plug it back in and manually log 2 hrs in the sleeper.
But from what I understand I would have been SOL if I were to get in a wreck, or if during an audit they noticed a pattern of this occurring.
But if you were to do unplug it every few days the unlogged mileage would be crazy high, enough to warrant a closer look by dot imo.

 

To the OP.. do you have PC time?

 

If your company gets audited...and they will...the unplugged ELD time will show up like a red flag. There could be some big fines for that and your boss will probably fire you.
If you get caught in a roadside inspection or a scale and you've obviously unplugged your ELD and there are time gaps you'll get fined plus some major points on your record.
I have a hard time believing that your company allows this. Or have they just not caught on to you yet?

 

Good answer.