As EOBR mandate, CSA 2010 loom, on-board technology takes center stage

Honestly this is sickening.

The problem is to many cowboys out here who all act like little kids, and they just show the world that it's big immature overgrown children driving all this metal down the streets.

I for one, do not need someone out here to babysit me. Maybe these same people who want to shove black boxes into our truck, need to have one put into there big fancy Cadillac. "Sorry sir, you can't take the family up to the lake, it's to far and you will be tired long before you make it" I am sure he would argue different until his last breath.

So what's the excuse for trucks needing them, because we are commercial? If you want to argue that, we are hauling FREIGHT, and one human being. ALL that freight has insurance, and can be replaced, along with the truck and trailer, the driver has no price, and cannot be replaced. Now you see a mini-van rolling down the highway with 8 kids in it, and yet they are free to drive as long as they want to, with no rest, and no penalties. So they have no freight to worry about replacing, just 8 lives, but no it's ok, THEY DON'T NEED TO BE BABYSAT, JUST THE 45 YEAR OLD PROFESSIONAL TRUCK DRIVER WHO'S BEEN OUT HERE FOR 25 YEARS!

I am truck shopping and I won't be buying anything newer then 2003, no emissions crap here.

 

I just received a note from a friend who, along with her husband, pound freight from one end of America to the other. They work hard and deliver a lot of 'stuff' to a lot of people - and do it safely. She wrote a letter to a member of the Senate Transportation & Merchant Mariine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Board objecting to requiring truck owners to install the new snooping equipment.. She made her point well. Keep your government all-controlling noses out of my truck and take care of the important matters having to do with transportation.

What I'd like to suggest, and aside from the smarmy local driver comments, each driver do as she did; Contact Senators Jim Demint, John Thune, and Frank Lautenberg, and let them know what your thoughts are in this regard.
They're easy to find. Google is the truck driver's best friend. Oh, and Demint and Thune are running for re-election. 10-04?

 

I can expnad on it. To lazy to work. These are the types that lay up at truck stop and ##### about not getting miles and fight over who will be first to the buffet.

If a factory worker, police officersand who ever can work 18 hours a day, truckers should be able to do the same. I have posted this a million times and I will post it again, I can kill you in my suv just as fast as I can my big truck. I can crush your family in my SUV just like I can my big truck. If I must park my big truck after 10 hour, I should have to park my SUV.

Really think about this following statement. I drive 10 hours to the yard. I exit my big rig and jump in my suv to go home. Really think about that ###### up statement. DOT and these lazy ### drivers say i'm to tired to drive after 10 hours, however, I can get in my SUV and drive down the road and kill you or your family in my SUV. How ###### up is that?

The lazy ### drivers are for this ####. They're to #### lazy to work!!

 

I agree Tank. Psychological testing ought to be mandatory. Then again, maybe 2010 will get the Baby Dewey's!

2 years from now, the accident count is getting worse.
FMSCA...We did everything we could to control trucks. I just can't figure out what the problem is?

 

My truck has a million on it, i plan to put a million more on it because all the new trucks with the emission crap is nothing but a headache. It will be a cold day in hell when i retire a truck at a million

 

While it may be "your" truck - it's the nation's highways, and government issued authority ... so it's going to happen, whether we like it or not.

By the time any of this becomes fully enforced, which is not only the eobr legislation - but each state's ability to implement the technologies and training ... many on this board will already be retired. Not to mention the usual "grandfather" exemptions.

I give it 10 years.

 

Well im screwed like the load im on i left out monday 4am to drive 100 miles to pick it up signed in at 7am did not get loaded untill 4:45pm this is the problem you have to get half at this yard than go a mile down the road to get the rest the load is going 600 miles and must be delivred no later than 2:30pm so with a EOBR my first day would be gone have to find a place to park my truck day 2 drive to the drop off but cant del its after 2:30 so go and park at the truck stop because thay dont have truck parking there so wake up day 3 drive 3 miles to get there takes them 5 hours to unload so now i only have 8 1/2 hours left in my day cant get home on that one so it would take me 4 days to do one run that i make $1,400 + FSG $252 so all week i could only do one run and make $1,652 and takes me $600 in fuel how could i make it

Something is gona have to change i make around $750-$1,000 a day now so im just gona have to charge by the hour $100 thats the only way we are gona make it than on top of that they want to cut back the HOS and put speed limeters on the trucks whens it gona stop

I dont get crazy with my log that pipe yard that i was there all day i was off duty taking my 10 hours started my day at 5pm del next morning took my 10 hour break now im on the road be back in town to get a load first thing i do 3 of these loads a week with a EOBR im only gona get to do one of these

Also i do not have a truck to drive anymore was paying insurance on a truck that just sat in the driveway i drove once a month so i use my big truck when im home so thats gona screw me as well even if you move it to cut the yard it thinks your working so thats that

 

Let's put the black boxes in all the cars too then. Joe 4-wheeler is more at fault in accidents than the truckers are. The government just needs to stop regulating the hell out of us. Stay the hell out of our business.

 

Let's make psychological tests mandatory for ALL driver's licenses. There are plenty of idiots behind the wheels of cars that have no business driving anything. Not even a ###### gocart.

 

JEEGADS,Dr.Quakadoodle-doo tests too..? I DONT know what to say,so,- Guess I flunked,huh? Catch me if you can,coppers.... Cant help it,-its FUNNY....