Petition to stop EOBRs

you can't convince the box lovers that though.

 

It's a big waste of time to fight it. Once they labeled you a 'professional' that was their gateway into putting these little black boxes into your truck. Every other professional out there is mega scrutinized what makes truckers think they are so special to be trusted to run around amok setting their own standards?

 

I have time to waste when on the road. Makes more sense to me doing that than coming on here to complain about it.

 

If that's the best solution you can come up with then I'd better start clearing a spot on my dash for the EOBR now. You're not one of those people who encourage folks to not buy gas on some preselected day because you believe it will 'teach the oil companies that we're not going to stand for high gas prices' are you?

Refuse to submit? Really? I'm dying to know how one would be able to refuse to submit to CSA short of quitting and finding another career path.

I guess in theory we could all pretend that we're in a union even though we're not. And then we could in theory all get together and decide that we're not going to drive until these rules we don't agree with are done away with. But there are a ton of problems with that theory. And one of the biggest problems is the fact that many of us can recall a time when air traffic controllers did just that not just in theory but in reality. And most of them didn't like it worked out for them in the end. More recently, a bunch of twinkie bakers did the same thing with much the same result.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I don't love EOBRs and I don't hate them. I simply accept that they are coming. And when they do, I will see what impact if any they have on my quality of life and I will then decide what my best coarse of action is if any. In the mean time, I will continue to laugh heartily at anyone says things like the day they make me use one is the day I quit and so on and so forth. I will continue to laugh at that the same I laugh when a 5 year old says he's going to run away from home because his mommy wouldn't let him eat ice cream for dinner.

 

For all of you that love EOBRs, would you like an EOBR as much if you were REQUIRED to own your own EOBR and the subscription monitoring cost? I just see it as another expense as an O/O that I have to pay for yet won't be compensated any more for and does NOTHING for safety.

 

The founding fathers, or at least the founding father who led the group responsible for that whole throwing tea in the harbor thing, was a Harvard graduate and respected political leader by the time that little tea shindig took place. Not a whiny trucker with a broadband connection and some free time. You'll forgive me if I don't see one as being in any way shape or form similar to the other.

 

gremlin, it is the same thing

honest men being taxed/monitored/controled

the early folks were not supermen, but regular guys who saw an evil in their midst and worked against it

the unification wasnt easy, it wasnt easy for hoffa and it wont be easy for us, but as long as we sit and whine and not try to "rally the troops" NOTHING will be done and we may as well get those high-heeled shoes, because its PIMP time

communication is always the key, whether it is whining guy on horseback screaming "the british are coming" or fellow drivers trying to drum some sense into other fellow drivers that we are all being led to slaughter via the internet

you cant make change if everyone has their heads up their butt, so the communication is the first step

and agenda is second, leadership, then action (or some other variation of that)

so dont poopoo the rights of free speech, this is what free speech is supposed to protect (not playboy and larry flynt)

 

I find it interesting that most folks who oppose EOBRs seem to think that anyone who does not take a vocal stand against them, must therefore love them. Just some food thought, but when you take everyone who isn't outwardly for you and label them as being outwardly against you, you effectively alienate yourself from quite a few people who might otherwise be convinced that your argument has merit.