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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.
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.
I am a company driver and I want to make a couple comments and hopefully you can publish them as nobody seems to want to talk about these points.
1: EOBR’s track us by the minute, but carriers insist on paying via the antiquated method of mileage pay. This antiquated method is dangerous driving habit promoting because it rewards you for driving as fast as you can. Figure out your hourly pay next time you are stuck going through Chicago at rush hour instead of shutting down for a cpl hours and waiting it out.
Now imagine no cheating on your logs, couple that with a record number of inexperienced drivers racing the unbeatable clock. You now have the most dangerous industry in the world!!! For the drivers and the general public.
2: Hourly pay has to be adopted the moment the switch is turned… more »
3: Monitored by the minute, paid by the mile….. Makes as much sense as wiping BEFORE you go poop!
4: The HOS rules are almost impossible to follow right now on paper logs where you can bend the rules a little to match your needs. Imagine the lack of ability to do the job with the rigid laws we are forced to follow.. Do we just pull over on the side of the road when the EOBR tells us we are out of hours and turn on the flashers and satellite our boss and tell him to send a driver to drive the truck the 10 minutes to the nearest truck stop? Or do we take a 10 hour break and deliver the load a day late when we run out of hours 10 minutes from the consignee’s dock? « less
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 »
http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/lawsprog.htm « less
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.
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?