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What's Happening Now

February 23, 2011 8:24 pm

The answer to the problem is…..
Carriers need to change the way they bill their customers. FMCSA has forced EOBR’s onto us. They track our every movement, BY THE MINUTE.
The Carriers need to get together and as a whole switch to hourly charges for their services and move away from mileage pay!

The technology is now upon us to track each and every minute a truck, or combination of trucks spend moving any given peice of freight shipped.

This can’t be done by one carrier, but instead by an INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE!!!!!!!

This would take all the variables out for all carriers, level the playing field, and allow carriers to compensate their driving staff like the rest of the workplace in North America.

Is your average driver even aware they are not recognized as part of a labour… more »

…force under the FAIR LABOUR STANDARDS ACT ???? Don’t beleive me? Here is the link

http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/lawsprog.htm « less

March 5, 2011 7:06 pm

I believe you actually have a username and password and you have to sign into your account inside the scalehouse and they can view it that way.

March 5, 2011 7:10 pm

I do have another question though regarding permanent copies of logs for the driver.
In Canada we get to claim a per diem of $54.00 for every 24 hours we are away from home and claim that amount against our total income at the end of the year. I currently draw this information from my paper logs.
Will employers be required to give us an electronic copy or paper copy of log sheets monthly or at the minimum yearly?

February 20, 2011 4:02 pm

Do you know drivers that already have EOBRs installed? Do they find themselves driving faster to avoid penalties?

It also sounds like you have something to say about the HOS rules themselves. FMCSA is in the process of making changes to those in another proposed rule. You can submit a comment at regulations.gov.

March 5, 2011 3:25 pm

Will law enforcement have the right to look at the eobr ? What kind of a question is that ? Except now you will have to let them in your truck so they can do that MN. style profiling when they see your home furnishings. I know that DOT law enforcement does not get enough sleep at home ether T.V’s in their bedrooms and laptops and a partner to keep them a wake doing grown up things. The EOBR’S are nothing more then a tool for law enforcement to use to come into my home away from home.