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aknapke1215
February 10, 2011 10:45 pm

These would only work in a perfect world where there isn’t traffic or weather or breakdowns or anything else that a driver has to deal with on a daily basis. What if for instance you go to a shipper who screws you a round for 6 hours while they load you and then you can’t make delivery you just lost a day of income who is going to make that up? Not the people who made the rule. What if that happens twice in one week there goes two days of income that you need to operate your buisness. How do you make that up, how can eobrs not have a severe economic effect on drivers livlihood. They may work for the big trucking companies who have thousands of trucks, but what about the guy with one or two or three trucks who is doing everything they can to compete. It seems to that the only people… more »

…who are in favor of these eobrs are big trucking companies who are in favor of them just so they can control their competition, and the government and universities who I’m sure have no common sense or real world experience with trucking. What is good for big buisness usually hurts small buisness which makes up 95 percent of trucking. « less
aknapke1215
March 16, 2011 11:06 pm

That is the point that i am trying to make i guess eobrs have nothing to do with safety, its all about the money. I’m sure someone stands to get rich off of this proposal there always is. At a time when the economy is struggling to recover from a horrible recession and truck statistics are the safest they have been in the 50 years all of a sudden HOS non compliance has become a big issue? why the money I’m sure that eobrs save big fleets plenty of money they don’t have thousands of logs to audit every week, and they have the equipment and the working capital to be able miss appointments and deadlines with small consequences or consequences that won’t put them under. According to ooida the fmcsa can’t even justify this rulemaking without using out dated or inflated… more »

…numbers from years before the current HOS took effect. So I guess it isn’t all about safety « less
truckerbobs
March 13, 2011 2:47 pm

Who do you think pays for idiot legislation like EOBR’s. As Rush always says, “Follow the Money”. Look to see who is sponsoring this legislation and that will answer the questions about “only big company’s can afford to install EOBR’s. Big companies are paying for this legislation precisely so they can run small business truckers out of business, because we can haul it cheaper.


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