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As one who drives for living(rather be doing something else) the problem with log books aren't so much the drivers fault as it is the fault of the shipper/receiver always asking for more but giving less and less in the compensation area. Most of the freight rates are too low for a driver, owner-operator and in many cases companies to sustain a business let alone make a profit. Most trucking companies make an average of 1% profit. Not too good. The major trucking companies make up for the low rates by doing volume. There is another problem that has some indirect pressure on both the trucking industry and the railroads. That pressure is coming from the fact that there are few "large" industries in America today. Although one might think that steel, and automotive are large industries, in fact they are not. This has been caused by the province of the manufactuers to "spread" out the industry to places where one would never find heavy industry before. Most trucking today is in the 350-500 mile range. To be fair there are still some coast-coast hauls(mainly produce) but most are overnight or 1.5 days at best. Anymore than that and the price and quality suffers. This segment of the trucking industry is going to be a hard nut for the railroads to crack. The only logical way to do this is use a system similar to either CPR's Xpressway or NS's Triple Crown. Unfortunately terminal delays such as in Chicago will not allow this traffic to grow until that problem is solved.
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