Five BAD trucking companies

**Cowpie1** · 10.17.2010

Schneider, Maverick, US Express, Knight, and JB Hunt.

They started a lobbying front group called Alliance for Driver Safety and Security to lobby congress to pass legislation that would require every commercial truck over 10,001 lb that operates outside of its local area to have EOBR regardless of size of company or whether they have a record of compliance or not. This legislation is currently in the U.S. Senate, sponsored by Sen Lamarr of TN and Sen Pryor of AR.

The object is to destroy many small carriers, regardless of operation, thru government legislation and cut out the competition. Simply because many small operations will have great financial difficulty in complying with EOBR regulatory requirements in equipment and data storage/retrieval.

If passed, this legislation would require EOBR mandate in virtually all commercial vehicles within 3 years.

**johnday** · 10.17.2010

This is not good. I wonder where Werner is?

**GoneButNotForgotten** · 10.17.2010

Rolling a head to get ahead (thru legislation). What a shame.

**Corkyf62** · 10.17.2010

Its considerably cheaper to hire unskilled "seat meat" than a well experienced driver. Install a bunch of electronic gadgetry (EOBR, Quaalcom, ECM, etc.) to replace skill, feed a bunch of BS to a newbie & you're good to go.

**walstib** · 10.17.2010

>>>If passed, this legislation would require EOBR mandate in virtually all commercial vehicles within 3 years.

Why is this a bad thing?

**Emulsified** · 10.17.2010

We have brought this on ourselves. Too many drivers still run illegal. I have listened to many brag how they are running 700, 800, even 1,000 miles per day. How they 'tear up their logs' and start again.
I agree this (EOBRs) doesn't make us better drivers, but for the actions of a few, the rest of us are being herded.
I have said it for years: The government wants just a few major carriers, not a bunch of smaller ones, so they can more easily control the industry.
Just like the airlines, banks, insurance...
we are just the next peg on the board.

**thelastamericanhippy** · 10.17.2010

Could some links be posted,

for all this info ???

Thanx

**rollin coal** · 10.17.2010

What is the senate bill# ? It does no good to call and not have that for reference when commenting.

**drvrtech77** · 10.17.2010

the one thing e-logs will do is either force the carriers to clean up there act on the way they dispatch or go out of business. if you can't run an efficient operation, you don't need to be in business!!!!

**Voyager1968** · 10.17.2010

Originally Posted by Emulsified

We have brought this on ourselves. Too many drivers still run illegal. I have listened to many brag how they are running 700, 800, even 1,000 miles per day. How they 'tear up their logs' and start again.
I agree this (EOBRs) doesn't make us better drivers, but for the actions of a few, the rest of us are being herded.
I have said it for years: The government wants just a few major carriers, not a bunch of smaller ones, so they can more easily control the industry.
Just like the airlines, banks, insurance...
we are just the next peg on the board.

I just left a company after running for one week because not only did the drivers do this, but the company looked the other way, and perhaps even encouraged it. I don't and won't run that way.