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April 9, 2011 1:15 pm
Your comment about FMCSA’s safety estimates is very important. What would you estimate the actual compliance rate to be? It’d be really helpful if you have a source for your information, like a news article or a report. FMCSA is specifically looking for this type of information, so anything you have would be very useful.
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There are a couple of items that I would like to address.
1. The “one study” that FMCSA is using to say that there is a 55% non compliance rate is not an accurate number. We all know that if we look long enough we can find ONE study to say what ever we want. I drive and have a small compay. My motto is if you can not do it legal do not do it. I know there are a very few who do not run legal but I can assure you there will be those when you have EOBRs. Contrary to those who don’t know better these devises are not fool proof they depend on driver input and there can be mistakes. I just talked to a Ms. DOT officer who told me that a large carrier who allows 6 mo. old drivers to become trainers often come in with their EOBR logs that are all messed up, ie both drivers on… more »
2. How about intergrating the federal system with all the state systems so when one of these carriers comes up to a scale they are flagged a checked on a more stringent basis. Also make sure that they can not operate a prepass, this way they have to come thru the scales, these companies could also be checked at roadside inspections more often.
3. It is a sad day when all these special interest groups lobby to pass regulations on an industy that has shown consistant improvment in safety when such regulations are often burdensom and do not really solve the real problem. « less