Supreme Court rules that un elected bureaucrats in giv agencies have no constitutional right to make laws.

Act naturally. Work when there is work. Eat when you are hungry. Sleep when you are tired. Sadly our system doesn't allow the mass' to think for themselves. Social pressures. Financial pressures. Look at the case of the "pig racer" that left his truck in the middle of the road and walked off. The investagation showed he had been on the job for nearly 30 hours and was on meth. Trying to support his family and business. What a shame.

Here in Iowa, like other states, they put the traffic deaths (year to date) on the traffic alert signs. Typically Iowa ends up at roughly one a day. 365. So far this year, half over, we're at about 130. Quite an improvement. Why? I don't know. People have gotten better at distracted driving? Maybe not. Two crashes in FL / GA recently where a four wheeler run under a big truck stopped on the shoulder. Maybe it's because freight is down meaning fewer trucks on the road. Hopefully it's the least desireable of the bottom feeders that have parked. I saw some evidience of this at the casino in Altoona. There appeared to be a half dozen or so abandoned trucks sitting there. Rusty fifth wheels, no current IFTA stickers, seven digit US DOT numbers starting with a 3. The type of equipment, condition, domiciled from recognized places of the foreign operators. Maybe we just had a mild winter.

The E log was never about saftey , It took some years to come to a head but it was just about getting freight moved cheaper to try and keep cost of goods down to counter their nonsense , now a day's you don't need to know anything except push a button to make the truck go and push buttons when computor tells you what and when you need to do , oh and don't worry if you can't read or speak english we can do your log from the office , I will have 40 years at the the beggining of august and im really discusted about what this industry has become , you know it's bad when you can't even have any respect for fellow driver's anymore because the little black box tells them that they need to act like a fool all day....So saftey NO WAY but just like any other time the goverment [ who most of the time can't run themselves ] sticks their nose into this industry it seems to take a nose dive....

E logs are about government control of the drivers. Notice when there is rampant theft and double brokering they are no where to be found to protect truckers? They can only control you who are legally licensed.

It seems this has turned into the HATE THE LITTLE BLACK BOX discussion. My question to anybody who hates E-logs or hours of service in general is this, without a way to regulate the hours worked, what keeps a company driver (or any trucker) from being a modern day slave? We are already one of the only industries in America exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act. You can legally work up to 70 hours a week as a truck driver. I can tell you from experience in the livestock hauling industry that when you allow truckers to work using only paper logs they will run around the clock because that's what's expected, and if you don't somebody will take your place. The Iowa pig hauler found dead recently is a prime example of what can eventually happen when you push yourself or get pushed too hard.