Do you have to lease a truck at prime?

IF and when our economy does pick back up,it will be revved up by the truck and that trucks driver. Electronic logging will only cripple our economy and do nothing but silence the MADD people and the ATA.
Why stifle our fledgling economy by implementing the on board boxes?
I do not think the black boxes will be mandated.Thay will use the cost prohibitive aspect but the real reason will be the hold that he box could put on our economy.
This is my opinion and i have not researched it at all so I can state it with conviction.

 

The QualComm already has a GPS transponder in it, so most of the hardware is already present in a fleet truck. It's just a circuit card added to the existing QualComm unit, and some software in most trucks as it is... nothing cost prohibative.

 

Actually if you have the Omnivision display unit... there is nothing they have to do on the truck to activate it. Software is already installed. Its all done from the terminal.

Log in and go.

If it becomes mandatory, it will be interesting to see. If it supposedly levels the playing field, think of the storm before an equalibrium is achieved.

 

Don Lacy said it is coming this year for all Prime trucks.

 

The DOT will never be able to mandate it on all OTR trucks to many independent owner ops on the road, who's going to monitor theirs for them. I do believe it will be mandated for larger companies probably with 500 plus trucks. Prime is going to it because of log book violations that's plain and simple just like Werner had to.

 

Yeah... and he said Great Wide was going to be part of Prime too. I'd agree that it will happen eventually. Maybe this year, maybe not.

No? The federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce. If they decide to go that way, US DOT would probably be happy to be looking over your shoulder driving down the road. The company line is that they will do it because its coming as a federal mandate - and I don't see them using it as a punishment for logbook violations. They have a better tool - they terminate you for any out of service violation.

 

Then what would be the point of being a true owner operator if the dam government is telling you that you must be paperless. There is no way they can control the O/O.

 

There's plenty of ways they can control you! Look at what they're doing with HOS, DOT inspections and port-of-entry scale houses... that's control, and we're smart enough to find away around it.

Article 8 of the Constitution reserves the following powers:

"Section 8
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes..."

"To regulate Commerce... among the several States" says it all. It's one of the ennumerated powers, so as soon as you take that truck across state lines - whether you're driving for a big company or yourself - you let the feds into your business.

 

No disrespect intended to BOOSTEDTEG, but the government can and will do as they wish to a very large extent, it is happening and will continue to happen!