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troller
February 15, 2011 3:29 am

First of all, I woulod like to say I am sick and tired of trucking, it has become a overegulated, idiotic, bs filled profession where people get punished for profits. I agree with the wanderer about these eobors, I don;t want them on the trucks and all. drivers today don’t make enough money to sit and wait around for slow *** shippers to get freight off our trucks. and then when we have to pick up and deliver these hot loads we got dot sitinng around taking our salaries in the name of safety to put in their pockets. Now we gotta have computers telings when you are legal. I know the best way to be legal is don’t drive at all. then you won’t have a load to deliver, a company shorting your check, and dot officer screeening for violations, and being blackballed by dac/usis and… more »

…hireright with flase info the you have to fight like a creidt report tha takes forever and keeps you out of work for a long time. All the big carriers run rookies like **** then fire them for everything they do wrong that by the time the learn how to drive they are gone with a one shot one kill mentality. Now eobors are being mandated for all cmvs. Sounds to me like the goverment wants everybody to be broke and not making money. Do you think shippers care about safety? All they care about is getting their freight delivered. And Now mexican trucks will do that for cheap without the slightest bit of compliance. But we american truck drivers have to comply. OOida is right the government wants to wipe out small business and cowtow to big fleets. that’s wrong. simply put you cant deliver freight legally with all the uncertainty out there on the road, there’s too much to account to just run so many hours and ensure so much deliver. the driver pay has to go up. we cant go around being legally poor. yes we’re saf and legal, but we broke cause nobody’s paying decent rates to have anything hauled anymore. « less
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February 15, 2011 3:42 pm

What do you think about thewanderer’s experience that having EOBRs has made work easier for drivers? If EOBRs are required, what can FMCSA do to make sure all drivers see the benefits thewanderer talks about?

You bring up a good point about Mexican trucks and U.S. safety rules. FMCSA wants to use electronic recording devices to make sure Mexican drivers are following U.S. laws. (You can read more about it here.) How do other users think the proposed EOBR rule will affect American drivers’ ability to compete with Mexican drivers?


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