Electronic tracking has been required on semi-trucks for 5 years. Fatalities haven't decreased.

Calm down.

My driving record is clean. Great safety record. I don’t need to be monitored like a newborn in the crib. I shouldn’t be treated like the type of driver you speak of.

 

Paper won’t restart while your bobtailing off duty in PC,and switch you to driving.

 

Sounds like a settings problem. Most companies limit PC to an hour a day or so.

Everybody else does too. Until they don't.

 

The airline industry is in a mess also. Big Carriers use mostly smaller Carriers for passenger flights. Since they’ve changed their service Business plan to hub operations. People think they’re flying a major Airline, when actually it’s another small contracted Airline. The Pilots don’t make much at all. They’re also forced to fly more, simply to make a living. and are overall way less experienced than the actual hiring criteria of the larger airline it’s representing. It’s shocking, A Pilot can get promoted very quickly, resulting in the blind leading the blind. A recent crash illustrated that neither Pilot had the enough training and flight time.

 

It also won't check your math or record your location for you. Two of our biggest violations on paper logs.

 

Originally it was supposed to be for the bad actors that had egregious HOS violations, like when JBS had to adopt electronic logging or lose their authority. But OOIDA decided that the rule needed to be fought.

 

Yeah; it seems if a driver is a stumbling bumbling accident on wheels then they want cameras on everyone including those of us who are actually good at our jobs and don’t need constant baby monitoring and have the good records to prove it.

Top of the line drivers are being driven out of the industry because of the bad drivers.

 

Top of the line drivers? LOL!!!!!

 

From the original manual of my Case tractor of the 40’s. And it still stands true today.

No electronic device will do as much for safety as a careful driver, but electronic equipment will generate a lot of $$$…. for someone.