EOBRs (Qualcomms) required in ALL Trucks by Jan 1st 2014?

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by CryloZeus, Jan 5, 2013.

  1. ke5adb

    ke5adb Light Load Member

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    I'd prefer just to keep the old loose-leaf logbook. My only question to what I keep seeing is: Why can't a mechanical powered truck have an EOBR? My '86 KW still has the wires from the tach and speedo for the qualcom, all I would have to do is incorporate a GPS into it. I personally like the XATA system and see no reason that I can't install it into my truck if I'm ever required to. I understand the argument about supposedly governing a mechanical truck. That's really not a big deal either.
     
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  3. snowwy

    snowwy Road Train Member

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    my computer does my adding just fine for me. WITHOUT gps.
     
  4. mitchtazz

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    it's not the EOBR that wont work, it's all of the other stuff, like hard braking events, when the truck is rolling while in neutral, over revs, unstable turns, over speeds, excessive speeds, pto hrs and stuff like that. Everyone just groups all of it into one catagory (EOBR) and people automatically assume they're refering to HOS when in all honesty EOBR is just for HOS which can be put into any truck, but QualComm is another beast of it's own which communicates with a little black box that's connected into the ecm.
     
  5. ke5adb

    ke5adb Light Load Member

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    My cabover was a werner truck back in the day. It still has the cable that went to the QC. It's tied into the tach, speedometer, and battery voltage, and I can install a neutral sensor or a sensor to determine applied braking. Any other sensors would be easy to retrofit for a modern QC. All I was saying is, I see people saying that mechanical trucks will be extinct soon, my truck doesn't need an ECM for a EOBR. With modern electronics, I don't see how having a mechanical engine would be a problem.
     
  6. mitchtazz

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    anything can be retrofitted, but i think they're looking more along the lines as if it would be easier to just buy a truck with all of that already built into it rather then piece it all together.
     
    mje Thanks this.
  7. ke5adb

    ke5adb Light Load Member

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    When they get the emissions garbage ironed out a little better, I'll buy a new truck. Retrofit and APU on the old cabover is still worth more to me than any current new truck.
     
  8. skateboardman

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    how many of you realize that the eobr called for in the mandate doesnt exist right now?

    the mandate calls for biometric identifier, the driver has to be identified by this. thats like a finger print scanner or other means.

    it calls for more than just punching in a driver code.

    the mandate is a far different animal than the quallcomm with added on logbook.
     
  9. Cat sdp

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    I'm still waiting for the biometic scanners to read my twic card. I paid my money 4 years ago, have not seen a scanner yet. lol

    I'm sure they will mandate eobrs and we will have to buy them. The details can be worked out later. At an unknown cost to US..............


    Kinda the same as the new emission trucks.......... Make the peons buy now, reengineer to work correctly later.........
     
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  10. CondoCruiser

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    Like go to an online trucking forum and hire a bunch of nerdy drivers that like computer gadgets? :biggrin_2559:
     
  11. mitchtazz

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    i'd do E-Logs as long as they don't kick me on line 3 automatically when i start driving.
     
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