Owner-operator Vince Crisanti sent along these pictures of two "No Engine Braking" signs with a warning to municipalities about the grammarians out there running the roads. There are plenty of us that well remember what we were taught in elementary school about double negatives.
Crisanti had been rolling through such-and-such tiny town in such-and-such rural county in such-and-such breadbasket state a couple weeks ago when he noticed one such sign. All well and good, but as he was slowing, mentally processing the reality of the engine braking prohibition in the town, and before the first sign was even out of eyeshot, yet another sign saying exactly the same thing appeared up ahead.
For a grammarian who also drives a truck, he thought, that might well be interpreted as a signal to use the engine brake not once, but twice!
There's something there, I dare say, about unintended messaging -- and/or the unintended consequences of overactive signage! ... (Any grammar snoots in the audience might well get a laugh out of it, too. You're welcome.)
Still no electronic logging devices on Canada's ELD registry
I thought I was on the verge of a rediscovery when owner-operator John Dehaan of Grand Rapid, Michigan-based General Die & Engineering reached out with info on a no-monthly-fee ELD service he'd found in the wake of the Continental VDO RoadLog's sunset. "I was looking around for a no-monthly-fee plan since VDO went," he said, and he found it in the HOS 247 ELD. "The service is good when I've had a question; I have a dedicated person that will help me with any problems I may incur."
The only downside? He's been unable to effectively run GPS with the tablet he's using dedicated to the ELD set-up, given the talbet's limitations itself. "I just use my phone for GPS" when needed, he noted.
