Oops, sorry, I think I stumbled into the Swift chat room. :lol:

 

You might want to buy a lotto ticket then because apparently it is your lucky day! :lol:

 

hate to bust your bubble again, but its Alpha Romeo. =) just isnt your day today...LOL

 

hate to burst your bubble, kevin. i do believe she made that error on purpose.
:rofl:

 

I think she meant George Romero.

 

When I did my backing test they made me do it in a swift triaxle trailer, I wasn't very happy about it :P. Those old swift car haulers you will see from time to time on the road no longer belong to swift, whomever bought them was just too lazy to get the lettering taken off . I have seen 3 of them in the last week!

As far as paperless logging, when I started with swift they where experimenting with it on a couple hundred trucks.

 

I've been using the paperless logs for quite some time now. There very complicated at first trying to remember all the macros and what they are for, but once you got them down there pretty easy.

Paperless logs have advantages and disadvantages. The biggest advantage is that DOT doesn't like to mess with the paperless logs. When I got pulled in for a LV. 1 inspection near Ashland, OR the DOT guy asked for my logs and I told him I was paperless. After a few minutes of silence, he just moved on to the inspection. After he was done, he asked to see my logs again , and again I told him I was paperless. He then asks me to bring my weekly log up and I told him I couldn't. "Why's that?", he asked and I told him if anything is over the truck, I can't get a signal thru. Holding an umbrella over the Qualcomm dome will block the signal and being in the bay was the same thing....lol Well, he moved on, I passed, and was on my way.

The down side is you can't slip a few hours off here and there like you can on paper logs. So instead of waiting 10 hours for rest, you wait 9 1/2 and take off. Paperless won't let you do that. It sends a big alarm to you on the Qualcomm telling you that you are in violation of DOT and to pull over. Also, no more of that driving past your 11 hour or 14 hour window, cause again, you get the alarm.

It's a blessing and a curse.

 

I run a paperless log for my part-time dedicated gig.
I just sign into the system after I pre-trip and then I hit the road.
The computer automatically puts me on line 3.
When I stop, it bumps me up to line 4.
And then I rate clock time.

It's great for dedicated work.
Because if I'm on line 4, I get paid:
Sweeping trailers, droping/hooking, Streakin' Beacon, scales, DOT inspections, it all pays the same.
Company automatically deducts 1/2 hour for lunch and two 15 minute breaks.
Everything else and the meter is running.

If I ran OTR, I wouldn't want paperless.
Just makes a tough job that much tougher.
Like when you get held up at a shipper or receiver near your 14 and they boot you off the lot.
Damn contraption beeping at you to shut er down and you got no place to park.
Then what do you do?
Pull over onto the median and hope nobody plows into you?
Screw that noise.
I'd just keep driving and let the chips fall where they may.
Better to get chewed-out by dispatch then rear-ended by some 4-wheeler.
Cause it's always the trucker's fault.

 

We have both.
We got TripMaster On Board Computers a couple years ago. They are little hand-held computers that 'plug-in' to a cradle. Anyhow, they told us that once everyone gets the 'hang' of the computers, we will do away with log books. Well, we are still running log books. I guess it's legal, running both. I dunno.