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

The black boxes are put there by the manufacturer, they dont capture hours of service. The EOBR's are totally seperate. Look at some of the big carrier's when your at the truck stop next time. The black boxes usually give data up to the previous 30 seconds before an event. Such as a collision. Show the speed, engine rpm, gear, seatbelt on or off, braking force etc. The information comes in handy during a fatal investigation to give you information that is not found from roadway marks or from the debris itself.

 

As always, one must follow the dollar. The big companies are all for EOBR's, and as others have posted, many of them currently have them installed in their trucks. So why are they pushing for another expensive item to be added to the cost of doing business?? ..........Cheaper Compliance........... Right now the big carriers spend a ton of money manually tracking/verifying/storing the logs to meet DOT regulations, and have these logs available for inspection. With EOBR's the big boys can cut out the "manual" part ( fire the staff) and everything is captured and stored digitally. The software will trigger alerts of non-compliance, and the one poor soul who is the lucky one not fired, gets to manually intervene. Big savings all around.

 

Headlines should read, "LaHood Purchases Beach House in Maui".

Will the FMSCA ever be satisfied? Not only will it chase out the independant trying to feed his family, you can expect freight cost to rise. Not only am I a trucker, I am a consumer too. EOBR costs $1,575,000,000- $12,000,000,000. That's not chump change.

 

Who wants to bet that LaHood and his cronies are heavily invested in EOBR technology and stand to make a crapload of money by shoving this garbage down our throats???

 

Think about this one. We did this to our selves by running renegade for so many years. If more of younwould have told your boss to kiss your ##### when he said "i don't care what it takes. GET IT THERE." we wouldn't have this problem. I don't agree with it, but we own a good share of the problem.
Stayfit

 

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

 

To me it sounds like a dot officer on the chatter, its all good, those guys do alot of wrk for the good cause and to keep all the dummies in chk....lol

 

This is proposed for interstate trucks only at this time. Think I might just have to stay intrastate if this comes to pass. Glad Texas has plenty of miles & oilfield work.

 

If it weren't for the fact I know what a joke the FMCSA is, I would almost think they care about safety. However, they don't fool me for one minute.