Hey y’all, guess what?
ELD’s aren’t a brand-new, outer-space idea someone just came up with yesterday.
I know, it’s hard to believe, but it’s totally true. You know if I’m lying I tell you. Believe it or not, there are fleets who have employed both ELDs and speed limiters for more than 10 years. You know what we call those fleets? (Hey now, this here’s a public market, watch your mouth, son.)
We call them some of the worst safety ratings in the country.
This is the absolute truth, and since it may cost someone their job, I will be vague about it. I once had a safety director from one of these aforementioned fleets tell me, “If you’re in a parking lot and one of our trucks pulls in, get the hell out of there.”
That was their safety director. You know, the person who has to sort through the “critical events,” one by one. He literally had to put out fleet-wide messages to tell people where their side mirrors were. Again, that’s not a filthy lie. I wish so bad it were, my teeth ache.
I’m gonna use some of that spiffy collegiate math, and go on to extrapolate some half-truths for you.
