Tracking who uses EOBRs

The ONLY benefit of it to the driver.

Not sure if you heard the rest of the story.

Because of the qualcomm on my truck at that time, it proved that I was doing 56 in a 55 construction zone, not the 66 mph that the camera claimed I was doing. And yes, the cameras DO show that clarity enough to accurately show WHO the driver is in a court of law. No claiming it was someone else in your truck there buddy.

When I presented it to the police, they claimed there is no way the system was wrong. Same with the company who runs the cameras and sold the city and run them in over 2 dozen other cities.

Upon review of the system, they actually confirmed that the system was completely malfunctioning for several weeks. Yet there were hundreds of drivers that had already simply paid the fine at $160 per person.

Think those persons would have liked to have been refunded an illegal and erroneous fine? Dang skippy. So I reported all this and my documentation to the local news station. They most certainly were interested in the story. The community was tired of these machines on the city streets. Admittedly as a revenue generating system. It's a civil fine, not a criminal an that's been upheld by the IA Supreme court.

Qaulcomm legal threatened the local TV news station with a lawsuit if they reported what was going on with the Speed cameras in Sioux City IA over this. Seems according to qualcomm legal, their system is not for tracking speed or location.


Huh? That's the entire premise behind why they lobbied to get this system stuffed down our throats. It ties the truck to a GPS showing locations and times, effectively determining speed as well.

 

Don't forget your TWIC card at the ports, driver. "Let me put this card in the reader to verify you," said no port we've ever been in.

On the speed issue, the Garmin gps units record trip data in fairly small increments (position and speed). You would have to use the mapping software or equivalent to pick out those points, but it could be done. Probably get thrown out anyway since it's not all official and calibrated like the speed cameras are supposed to be.

 

I just have an app on my iPhone that has a running graph and display showing my actual speed. And also the altitude I am at. I would trust it to be accurate as much as any qualcomm for verifying speed. Qualcomm may have a fit about their stuff being used to fight a speeding violation, but Speedbox could care less. I initially got it to compare my speedometer in the truck and in my Jeep Liberty. But it could have a useful purpose for the one being discussed.

 

Judging by safety msgs from Swift, the DOT's are learning how to find "form and manner" violations on EOBR's. The common one is to not fill out the "load" tab on the HOS screen. This is where you would list the trip number, BOL and trailer info. The funny error (to my twisted sense of humor) is not having a paper log with you when running on an EROB.

 

And what happens when there is no place to park for the required break?? Virginia comes to mind.... Cant's park on the ramps, not enough truck stops for the volume of trucks within the state, and insufficient parking at the rest areas...The reality is this, drivers will all be on the same clock, pretty much, working 8 to 5..... the truck stops will become a big version of musical chairs, where everyone gets out of their "chair" at 0800, and races to get back into the next available, empty "chair" before everyone else, with the poor souls who failed to locate a chair left standing without one....

Isn't government great? We should raise taxes so that government can get even bigger, which will stimulate the economy, reduce the deficit, and level the playing field.....yay!

 

Once they Mandate the EOBR it will be something else...GOVERNMENT RUN WILD...This will never end...

 

And that what to do with EOBR's?

 

Welcome to the party. It has been that way before the ink dried on the Constitution in 1787. Nothing new here. It is just escalating faster and faster as the years go by.

 

"And that what to do with EOBR's?"

What do you mean?

 

Well, you were quoted on your comments talking about EOBR's and trees was complaining about finding a place to take a required break. I was just curious on how finding a place to take a required break had anything to do with EOBR's. If one is out of hours on paper or on an e-log, what's the difference? The problem is the same.