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FMCSA Gone and done it.....watch out.

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by ratherbtruckin, Jan 31, 2011.

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  1. Jan 31, 2011 #1
    ratherbtruckin

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  3. Jan 31, 2011 #2
    walstib

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    Thankfully it's still just a 'proposal'....
     
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  4. Jan 31, 2011 #3
    U2Exit

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    Bring it on. I love my Elogs... 22 months on them so far, only one DOT officer out of a dozen or so actually wanted to see them after I presented my QC to them.

    No more calls in the middle of the night asking me if I have the hours to repower a load. Planning for loads has been alot smoother and no more rushing to appointments unless I run into unforseen delays beacuse the planners no what I can and cant do.

    If it takes me 9 minutes to fuel the truck and get back out on the road, it takes me 9 min. no rounding to the nearest quarter hour. cant argue with the log.
     
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  5. Jan 31, 2011 #4
    rbht

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    I love it, more money out of my pocket to make the roads safer. They will never be on my truck i will shut down first, call it stupid but there are some thing i will not do to satisfy some ### hat that has no idea about safty. They will not make the roads safer, accidents will still happen, you can not fix the way a driver drives or the other vehicles around us no matter what regs the push on us. Is there a study out there that showed the carrieres that run them had less accidents because of eobr's?.
     
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  7. Jan 31, 2011 #5
    ratherbtruckin

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    This is what I'm saying....O/O and small companies will foot the bill for the required equipment, or go out of business. This will hurt the industry more than anything, and put alot of people out of work. Its bad, and proposal or not, they're looking at it like its a god send! All it will do is allow for faster ticket writing at the coops.
     
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  8. Jan 31, 2011 #6
    groundpounder

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    I love it when somebody else decides what's best for me...
     
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  9. Jan 31, 2011 #7
    ratherbtruckin

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    I can agree with the elogs, but this isn't exactly the same thing. This is a "black box" type recorder. Basically to incriminate yourself if you make a mistake on your log. I don't like it. I could deal with Elogs, I'd prefer them actually, alot less paperwork.....I hate paper work! This isn't bad for the companies that already run them or can afford to outfit their trucks with them, this will hurt the small companies or single truck outfits the most. I'm sure its not gonna be free.
     
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  10. Jan 31, 2011 #8
    fallinangel

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    I think if we have to have them then every single vehical on the road ought to also as statistics show 97.8 accidents are caused by four wheelers so why exempt them we are the professionals on the highways as with these campers and such they ought to have to keep logs and be Doted as with the rest of us and carry CDL if the fmcsa want to do somethin then they ought to encompass every vehical even their own.
     
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  11. Jan 31, 2011 #9
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    Almost all trucks since 2000 have the black box in them. When a truck wrecks and we have a serious personal injury that may result in a fatal or a fatal accident, we download the "black box" anyway. A search warrant is written and after the judge signs it, the data is recovered. The same way for 4 wheelers and any other vehicle on the road. What they are referring to is the EOBR's to capture the hours of service, so in essence electronic logs. I'm sure some clever cat will figure away to override the EOBR's, seems no matter technology brings, someone, somewhere can figure a way to manipulate it.
     
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  12. Jan 31, 2011 #10
    fallinangel

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    thats fine but four wheelers and the rest ought to have the same hours of service as we do especially sinse they are the ones causeing 97.8 of the accidents on the highways
     
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