Comments on: Open Season on GPS Records http://www.arnoldsafetyblog.com/open-season-on-gps-records/ Helping Companies Comply With D.O.T. Safety Regulations Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:37:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: More Thoughts on GPS audits : Arnold Safety Blog http://www.arnoldsafetyblog.com/open-season-on-gps-records/comment-page-1/#comment-37453 More Thoughts on GPS audits : Arnold Safety Blog Thu, 13 May 2010 23:41:56 +0000 http://www.arnoldsafetyblog.com/?p=464#comment-37453 [...] man from a Midwestern carrier posted about his experience with the GPS audit. It pretty much backs up what I said in November of last year…. they are [...] [...] man from a Midwestern carrier posted about his experience with the GPS audit. It pretty much backs up what I said in November of last year…. they are [...]

]]> By: Eric Arnold http://www.arnoldsafetyblog.com/open-season-on-gps-records/comment-page-1/#comment-37452 Eric Arnold Thu, 13 May 2010 23:15:21 +0000 http://www.arnoldsafetyblog.com/?p=464#comment-37452 Testify, Larry, testify. The GPS audit is impossible to pass. If DOT is coming in, you basically have to 1) rip all of your GPS units out of the trucks, and go old school... which is perfectly legal, or 2) invest the money and go with the on-board recorders, which fill out the logs for the drivers. Staying in the middle is a recipe for disaster. What the Midwest Service Center is doing by demanding the GPS records is wrong. They are crucifying safe companies, they are not enhancing safety, and they are creating a unfair playing field. Carriers without GPS are at a competitive advantage over carriers that use it. Larry, if you run into trouble with your rating, feel free to call, I have had experience working with the Olympia Fields office in just this sort of circumstance. Testify, Larry, testify. The GPS audit is impossible to pass. If DOT is coming in, you basically have to 1) rip all of your GPS units out of the trucks, and go old school… which is perfectly legal, or 2) invest the money and go with the on-board recorders, which fill out the logs for the drivers. Staying in the middle is a recipe for disaster.

What the Midwest Service Center is doing by demanding the GPS records is wrong. They are crucifying safe companies, they are not enhancing safety, and they are creating a unfair playing field. Carriers without GPS are at a competitive advantage over carriers that use it.

Larry, if you run into trouble with your rating, feel free to call, I have had experience working with the Olympia Fields office in just this sort of circumstance.

]]> By: Lawrence C. Hartung http://www.arnoldsafetyblog.com/open-season-on-gps-records/comment-page-1/#comment-37451 Lawrence C. Hartung Thu, 13 May 2010 21:54:30 +0000 http://www.arnoldsafetyblog.com/?p=464#comment-37451 We run over 400 trks, and recently went thru the GPS DOT audit, we were still in the test mode of matching PS against the log auditing software, and were doing as many manual GPS audits as possible when the came in. After two months of being here the only violations were for false logs according to GPS, there was no mercy shown by the DOT, the fine is enormous, and we had to hire a DOT Atty, ourproposed safety rating has been posted as conditional. I have forwraded our appeal under 385.17, now we wait!! We run over 400 trks, and recently went thru the GPS DOT audit, we were still in the test mode of matching PS against the log auditing software, and were doing as many manual GPS audits as possible when the came in. After two months of being here the only violations were for false logs according to GPS, there was no mercy shown by the DOT, the fine is enormous, and we had to hire a DOT Atty, ourproposed safety rating has been posted as conditional. I have forwraded our appeal under 385.17, now we wait!!

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