Eobr next gen...

what about the mechanical engines? Maby they will make a gps gadget just for them.

 

Well, I sure hope they don't use the EOBR mandate thing as just another excuse to mandate older engines off the road. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if they follow the precedence that CARB set, and do the same thing, only from an EOBR standpoint.

 

I agree with cow pie. My farm trucks are old. The newest one is a 93. Oldest is an 87. They pass DOT inspection and do what I need them to do just fine. So...

 

As far as a device physically modifying the speed or assuming some degree of control of the truck... Don't give the imbeciles any ideas. That is a horrifying idea, especially when you take into account the variable nature of geolocation devices. Even with differential gps, it is still not reliable enough to be trusted in a situation involving control of heavy ground transport. Not to mention, the military can and does introduce a "fuzz factor" from time to time, ostensibly so such systems are less useful as targeting devices. Also, the timing data for the gps is relayed by radio waves, which are quite vulnerable to all kinds of interference.

Do you want to be merrily humming down the interstate, and have such a device get a hiccup in its GPS coordinate stream and think you're on a 30mph frontage road, and respond accordingly? Can you say multi-vehicle pileup? Google and friends' work on self driving cars notwithstanding, any external control of a motor vehicle not constrained in its movents (like a train for example) is a bad bad idea.

 

Trucking is going down the tubes. This year will be my last year OTR. It's so bad out there now with CSA and elogs. I have yet to run elogs thank god. I have been inspected twice since CSA came out and both times had no violations. CSA is too harsh companies look at that more than your driving record now, its ridiculous.

I've heard horror stories about people failing inspections so bad, just 1 inspection, that the got several hundred CSA points and now NOONE will touch them. I've seen a few of the CSA reports my company has showed me of people that applied and they can't hire because their score is 250-350+.