Quick question for those of you on qualcomm elogs

Didn't see this thread when I posted in the Regs section and I'm too lazy to retype it all out,

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...hreads/new-30-minute-break-guidelines.300001/

 

Heard about this couple days ago. Paper logs sound real good about now.

 

All depends on company settings of the QC. Like my former company, they did not allow for off duty driving. Any driving after 1.2 miles switched it over. Also, split breaks had to be done in the sleeper only and the 8 had to be done first or it will not show that you have done it. Guess it makes it easier for the compliance dept.

 

A previous post stated his company told him FMCSA now requires his Omni Tracs to change to driving at any speed.

I agree with you. The company can decide how they will operate the grey areas of the ELD. There is no actual guidance From FMCSA on this subject because there isn't even a rule requiring it yet. If they were to make a rule of how quickly it must change to driving it would have to pass a review period.

For the record, I don't like to split but if I worked for a company that further hand cuffed me by making up rules like the 8 has to come first or it doesn't count, I'd be looking to work somewhere else.

My minimum requirements for ELD now has become

1) must allow 15mph in off duty or on duty for a minimum of at least 1 mile before it switches to drive. (Nothing worse than getting stuck behind a CR ENGLAND driver putting around at 4mph looking for a parking spot at the truckstop because theirs trips at 5mph.)

2) must allow Personal Conveyance when empty and following the FMCSA guidance on this subject. Minimum 30 minutes every 24 hours if I need it.

3) Must have a safety Dept that actually understands the rules, and doesn't make stuff up and tells drivers it came from FMCSA.

I'd be hard pressed to leave Barr Nunn because I get the above here.

 

I wouldn't get too excited.
What's the minimum.

One company I worked for was 4 minutes.
If I am off duty for 10 minutes, and it puts me on drive line for 3 minutes and I go back to off duty it would put the 3 min back to off duty.
I could deal with that.

Current company is 2 minutes that's annoying.

 

Ours, if it trips to drive you can't change that. Qualcomm now logs in 1 minute intervals. If you don't trip it you're good to go. That is why a 15mph or 1 or 2 mile distance is needed before it trips.

We used to have 3-4 minute intervals last year.

 

For us if it's 1 min it will change back to previous duty status.
And that's retarded.
Should be 4-5 minutes. If you drove for a minute you didn't make it far.
Prolly at a Large Customers property or something anyway.

 

People net?

 

Nope QC.
I don't mess with it much anymore really.
Just gotta play by their stupid rules.

 

Not buying this. Qualcomm/Omnitracs provides a hardware device, this hardware device is configured by the carrier to meet the specs they want implemented. This may be a "feature" the FMCSA is actively seeking to get carriers to tighten up on, but this is not anything Qualcomm would ever be required to comply with, this is a carrier policy issue. If it's being tightened up, it's because the carrier is doing it [for whatever reason]