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ELECTRONIC LOGS DEBATE * USA - Trucker logbooks doubted
Most truckers play by the rulesMilwaukee,Wis,USA -The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron,OH) -Aug 26, 2007: -- ... Mile for mile, they have fewer accidents than drivers of cars... But every day, a significant percentage of commercial truck drivers disregard the rules that are supposed to limit how long they work. Every month, surveys have indicated, one in eight long-haul truckers dozes at the wheel. Every year, hundreds of people die in crashes involving tired truck drivers... The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration should scrap the paper logbooks in which truckers record their hours of work and rest... ''It's kind of ludicrous that we're still using paper logs,'' said Kristen A. Monaco, an economist at California State University-Long Beach, who has studied the trucking industry. ''The paper logbooks are just way too easy to fudge"... Instead, the critics say, the safety administration should order the use of an electronic system that the agency itself estimates would cut violations of hours rules in half... The safety administration probably won't issue final regulations on electronic logs for months, if not longer. Those rules are unlikely to end the debate, which could intensify as the ranks of the 1.7 million truckers on the highways grow by 200,000 to 300,000 by 2014... (Photo by Holly Hillsurfer - "Stevens Transport at Night")
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