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What's Happening Now
April 14, 2011 2:39 pm
Barney, FMCSA wants to get as much information as possible from people like you with experience in the trucking industry before it makes its final decision. Do you think that shippers and receivers would appreciate road conditions and other delays more if the EOBRs were required to record this information and then display it to the shippers and receivers when you arrive?
If so, could EOBRs help truckers with shipper and receiver problems?
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The use of EOBRs will tell you how long the truck has been in operation. Road conditions and other delays are not addressed. Shippers/receivers have no respect for deadlines they have placed on drivers to move their products. Once they get the truck loaded their job is done.
I’ve sat in a loading dock for 13hrs before and then I had to be at my delivery site in 10hrs. I couldn’t sleep while in the dock because the truck would shake everytime the forklift loaded another pallet.
It also sounds to me that FMCSA is mandating the use of EOBRs REGARDLESS whether those of us in the industry think that they will be effective or not. The shippers and receivers are an integral part of the problem that can’t seem to be addressed by FMCSA.
Because of the “just-in-time” deliver paradymn that we are operating in, shippers are concerned about getting the product out the door. Receivers, once the product is on-site, seem to take a non-chalant attitude about any other deadlines the driver faces for backhaul.
Some shippers/receivers MIGHT appreciate knowing what road conditions are that drivers are facing, but if I ever have trouble on the road I make it a point to contact them. So many times, receivers treat inbound truckers as an extention of their assembly line or freezer, depending on your point of delivery. I’ve sat in the dock in Georgia, stuck because they were running their operations from my truck. Consequentially, I was down for a full day.
Interacting with some shippers/receivers, I get the impression… more »