Electronic Recorders

There is no way to know.

 

Ask you safety adviser to show you that notification in writing .

 

The FMCSA attempted to have eobr's mandated by attaching it to the last Transportation bill, but the commitee put a statute on it that it would not be funded. So no eobr mandate is active right now.

 

Maybe here .

http://fleetowner.com/equipment/adopting-black-box

 

The last time the FMCSA attempted to mandate EOBR use, the court threw it out. Unless the manufacturers develop a way to prevent companies from using these devices to harass drivers and force them to drive when they are tired because "they have hours available", any future mandate attempts will meet a similar fate.

The OOIDA also had 3 other legal challenges to the first mandate that the court didn't even look at, because the driver harassment issue was enough to throw out the regulation....so even if the manufacturers DO correct that first issue, another attempted mandate is still going to have to survive a legal challenge before it could be fully implemented.

Personally, I will not install one of those wretched things in my truck. If the company I am currently leased to demands it, I will take my truck elsewhere. If there are no companies still running paper logs, I might look into my own authority. If that is not an option either, I'll park the truck and go find something else to do. As long as my name is on the title to that truck, it will not have an EOBR.

 

I've also been falling the articles and laws on this and do beleive it will be mandated by Oct. 2015. But I also beleive it's not gona be as bad, as most think.
If set up correctly, you can still move your truck under off duty states for personal use. Old Dominin does this very well. They actually save time by using EOBRs.
Now, let me have it, since I know I'm opening up the arguments here.