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Electronic logs * USA - Touted as safety solution
Rule needed to stop truck drivers from cheating, some say - Most truckers play by the rulesMilwaukee,WI,USA -The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), by RICK ROMELL -Aug. 11, 2007: -- Mile for mile, they have fewer accidents than cars. When a car and truck collide in serious accidents, it's usually the car driver's fault. But every day, significant percentages 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. And every year, hundreds of people die in collisions involving tired truck drivers... All of which has critics of trucking regulatory policies arguing that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration should scrap the paper logbooks in which truckers record their hours of work and rest. Instead, the critics say, the safety administration should order use of an electronic system that the agency itself estimates would cut violations of hours rules in half...
* Drivers for JDC Logistics falsify logbooks, drive too many hours, breaking rules designed to prevent deadly accidents
Milwaukee,WI,USA -The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), by RICK ROMELL -Aug. 11, 2007: -- Around dusk on June 13 last year, a driver for JDC Logistics Inc. on a run out of De Pere pulled off the highway in Remington, Ind., and crawled into his truck's sleeper berth for a good night's rest... Or so his logbook said... In fact, he was on the road in northern Illinois, heading toward Chicago... Two days earlier, a JDC driver recorded in his log that he spent the night in Fenton, Mo. In fact, he was rolling east on I-294, some 300 miles away... At Franklin-based JDC, a large trucking company focused on hauling parts to auto manufacturers, this sort of tinkering with logs wasn't unusual... Logbook falsification by truckers at the 589-driver firm was so widespread, federal auditors discovered last August, that the company was slapped with a $92,000 fine... (Photo by Jeffrey Phelps - The sun sets behind a row of trucks at JDC Logistics in Franklin. The trucking firm has been heavily fined by the federal government for violating regulations on drivers' hours of work)
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