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Thanks for your comment, gearjammer. You don’t seem to think that mandatory EOBRs would improve safety. Can you give reasons why not?
Gearjammer, the agency wants to know if there are specific reasons why the CMV costs of the basic EOBR proposal are unreasonable. Can you provide some numbers? Check out FMCSA’s analysis of EOBR Device Costs to see what the agency thinks and whether you agree.
Gearjammer, you mentioned President Obama’s order for all agencies to re-evaluate regulations. You can see DOT’s request for comments on their regulatory review and leave a comment by visiting the Regulations.gov website,
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the companies that want these are either the anti trucking groups or the companies that already have a poor record of compliance.
The financial burden for the Owner-operators will drive many out of business without improving safety, which is suppose to be the stated goal.
the over regulation of this business is driving many small business owners to bankruptcy and the government seems to care less.
for safety?? my aunts petutie
first, there are now roadside inspections, audits of the carries,both of which are used to enforce compliance,
then the with the new CSA rules the bottom 10% of the carries are required to install EBOR’s which is as it should be, and give the carriers and drivers incentive to be compliant in all areas not just with the HOS but all areas CSA covers.
in todays age if someone is not compliant they are gonna get caught and be required to install the recorders,so why put the added expense upon the owners of the trucks in an environment where the profit margins are so slim to begin with.
Pres. Obama has ordered all agency’s to reevaluate regulations that overburden industries and stifle growth and with the cost of the EBOR’s and monthly costs of monitoring which will be passed… more »
and again the primary companies that want this thing are out to kill the independents by driving up the costs of their competition which this will surely do, if the big companies would spend what is necessary they would not be in the bottom 10% and would not have to install the recorders in their fleets,so why not bring them up to the level of the other 90% instead of dragging the 90% down to their level and in the process bankrupt a lot of good and compliant owner-operators. « less
the company i am leased to has not come out with have not come out with firm numbers but estimates are in the 1200 to 2000 dollar range with a WEEKLY charge of 40 to 60 dollars.
I have been an owner operator for over 12 years now and have seen my bottom line drop to almost nothing.
the high costs of over regulation along with the facts that freight rates today are where they were 10 years ago add the fact that maintenance costs are outrageous is pretty much unbearable for the little guy to even come close to making a living.
I have 5 csa points and they are over a paper work issue that I was told that I could have had erased but i didn’t appeal it in time but at the time that this issue came up there was no way to appeal it.
so it isn’t like I am not a compliant driver and not… more »
I have about decided that the government could care less about the small business owner in trucking and have teamed up with the driver mill companies that hire new students that have no idea on how to be compliant and even worse are not safety first oriented so if they want to force me to come up with another 2 to 5 thousand a year to prove that I am following the rules then I will take the loss on my equipment and find some work that is less stressful more profitable in the process and watch the carnage that will surely happen as the proven safe drivers give up in frustration and the new breed of inexperienced super truckers take over from the proven safe old hands « less
here is the latest figures from landline mag. on accidents which shows that todays drivers are the safest in history so why drive the good and compliant driver out of business with overburdonsome regulations
As miles traveled increase, the 2009 fatality rate of 1.13 deaths per 100 million miles traveled was the lowest since 1950. Highway deaths totaled 33,808 in 2009, and despite a 9.7 percent decrease over the previous year, end quote
while any death on our highway is one too many it will be impossible to completely eliminate them.
BUT thru over regulation and the resulting loss of the demonstrated “good” drivers from the pool you will surely see a large increase in accidents as the new breed of inexperienced drivers take to the highways, many of which will push too hard and… more »
as in everything government when there is a good outcome from a little regulation then the powers that be decide that a little regulation did a lot of goo then a lot of regulation will do great things, sorry that never works and in this care will have a decidedly opposite effect. « less