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Thank you for your comment, thewanderer, and welcome to Regulation Room! Because you think that three years is too long, how long do you think that the proposal should be? Do you think that all carriers should be required to comply by the same time, or should larger carriers be required to install EOBRs sooner than smaller ones?
You also raise a lot of interesting points about Hours of Service noncompliance, and FMCSA must determine whether the costs of an EOBR rule will outweigh the societal benefits. Hours of Service noncompliance and driver fatigue as they relate to costs/benefits are a part of another discussion on Regulation Room, so perhaps you would like to contribute to the discussion of “What will this cost?” (http://archive.regulationroom.org/eobr/what-will-it-cost/#3)
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Three years is too long. 1. Any and all carriers that do not have EOBRs have a distinct advantage over carriers that are already using EOBRs. I have a friend working for a company and his company can make promises to customers about delivery times that our company can not because those drivers still have more flexibility in being able to turn in log sheets that look legal even though they do not match the exact schedule that they operated. On the other hand, having EOBRs has taken all the pressure off the drivers where I work to meet impossible scheduled delivery and pick up times and put that responsibility back in the office where it belongs and has forced the company to talk to shippers and explain to them why we couldn’t run the way we used to and to get better flexibility from the… more »
All carriers should be required to comply within 6 months. Reason: See Above. The only reason that the FMCSA needs is SAFETY. I used to be a miss-used, used, and abused driver by several companies that I have worked for. And although I always passed every DOT logbook inspection, I had many times been running so illegal it was ridicules. I did get fired from one job after I refused to run illegal anymore. Then I reported my getting fired to the Whistle Blower Program that turned out to be OSHA. A lot of good that did me. OSHA doesn’t do logbooks. So the next company I went to work for, it was business as usual. If you want to make a decent paycheck, then run. What ever it takes. Now I run out of hours for any reason: breakdown, traffic, construction, accidents, etc. not my problem. Amazingly enough, I still have the same problems on the road today but now I am not stressing over still making my pick ups and deliveries on time. And rarely does the company have to reschedule. It took them a while to acclimate themselves to a new way of doing business and some people had to be replaced because they could not adjust, but I would rather go to work for McDonald’s than go back to the old way of doing business.
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