Slip seating and ELDs

Most of the ELD's interface with a smart phone or a tablet. Those devices have the app which "talks" to the hard wired black box permanently installed in the truck. The individual driver would sign off his device when he leaves the truck and take it with him, the next driver using the truck would sign on through his device.
For units that are hard wired and stay on the dashboard the process is similar. Who ever is driving the truck has to sign onto the unit. All ELD's have some functionality to allow as many drivers as needed. Someone in the "back room" HQ will have to input the list of qualified drivers so the unit will recognize who to charge the hours/miles to.

 

Just make sure you sign off when you leave the truck

 

And, what ever you do when you sign back into a shared truck NEVER accept or say yes to the prompt about accepting unassigned drive time. This will put all the time on that truck if the other driver was not logged in, yard moves, mechanic moves, etc. If you do not accept the unassigned drive time it will not show on your log, only shows during inspection mode and the office has to explain it, not you.

 

Now that we have heard from a couple of people who say "...it should work this way". Does anyone have any actual experience with multiple drivers using the same truck in the same day?

 

What do you need to know? It's simple. If you jump in a truck and the previous driver is still logged in, log him out. Log yourself in. Go about your business. When you're done with your shift, log out. I'm not sure what it is you want to know about sharing an ELD?

 

Yep. We slip seat. Trucks returning from one run rarely sit long enough to cool down before they're heading back out with a different load and different driver. We use Peoplenet Tablets. It frequently happens that one of our trucks gets back at 0000-0100, a new driver hops in at 0200, returns to yard at 1200-1400. The next driver may get in at 1500-1700, return around 0000-0100, repeat.

Log in before pre-trip, log out after post-trip. It really is that simple. Any movement without a logged-in driver is stored on the Peoplenet backend as "Miles Without Hours" (parking to shop, shop to parking, ready line, etc, that's all logged by the mechanics and has nothing to do with us).

Edit: to add to the Miles Without Hours thing and touch on what @brian991219 posted above, Peoplenet does not ask a logging-in driver to account for MWH accrued, at least the way ours are configured. We are responsible for movements while we're logged in. A driver performing excessive movement before logging in, such as hooking trailer and moving about the property, would probably be reprimanded if it were a recurring thing. Doing it out on the road would result in termination, and probably sooner than later.

 

@JPenn thanks for the info about thePeopleNet. The system I am most familiar with was Pedigree One View. I was selling them, briefly, until I was let go from my equipment sales position last Friday. BTW, first time I have ever been let go from a job!

I imagine it could be a user adjustable parameter, and your fleet only wants the admin staff to make those assignments. On the Pedigree based systems they automatically gave the driver the option to accept the unassigned drive time (miles without hours), although I like the way yours is better, that way a driver can't accidentally accept responsibility for hours that are not theirs.