Switching to ELD's, looking for some input

$65.00 per hour or $750.00 per day layover. You are in the right range.

I was thinking about what a cap should be and $750 sounds good because that's what the truck could have made if it wasn't sitting. Brent thanks for the input, we do need brokers that are willing to stand beside us on this and not take a cut out of it. I know from the loads we've pulled for your company, you run a very fair and honest brokerage service. We need more of that so rates stay true and we can all make some money.

May help with wait times on longer distance loads, if the receiver gives a damn. But with 100 trucks lined up out the gate who cares if they lose a few. Until we all stop going into these places nothing will change. On the local level we compete against to many trucks that don't have to have ELDs or even authority. Guys that are scraping by day to day, glad to wait in line 5 hours for $190 to truck.

Just today day one of my drivers had unloaded a load of seed beans and needed to go back for another. 220 mile dead head, but can't unload until tomorrow. He wanted to pick up a load on the way, kill some time. Load go's in to the dreaded "slow field". He says I hear it's 2 hours max, that is lightning fast at this place. What the hell I think it's for a good customer. Almost 6 hours before he got out of there. No use asking for anything its not there problem. They we're dumping trucks, nothing broke. Just the way it is, don't like it don't come back. And we usually don't. The elevator we pulled the load for they won't pay for the wait it wasn't their facility. And 6-4 hours of detention would eat up any profit in the load.

If my driver was on ELDs he would have been done for the day. Many of you will say that's good. But he would rather go up the road and be ready to load in morning

We too have a few places around us that can have very long lines and it's just local trucks who don't run logs. Most the time we won't even consider snagging a quick load in there to make a little extra cause it always fails. It sucks to sit in a long line with a cheap load when you didn't even have to get it in the first place, especially when you are on the way to grab a bread and butter load.