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TRUCK'S TECHNOLOGY * USA - The truckers love to hate
Truckers by nature are fiercely independent and they don't like being told what to do
Framingham,MA,USA -Computerworld -March 27, 2008: -- ... They also face impossible cost pressures that force many to drive far more hours in a day than may be safe - or legal. Replacing paper logbooks with electronic ones could improve compliance. But faced with rising fuel costs and EPA mandated equipment, most see information technology as just another cost burden... Electronic logbooks could make hours of service and other data logging faster and easier. Widespread use could also make roads safer by making it harder to falsify driver logs and drive beyond the 11 hours legally allowed per day per Federal Moter Carrier Safety Administration rules. But in the battle between these groups, electronic driver logs are viewed as a competitive weapon - or threat... Safety inspection records show that there is indeed a problem in the industry when it comes to compliance. Of 1,251 compliance violations given out to truckers last year, 651 were given for false reports of driver record of duty status, according to an FMCSA report. FMCSA summary statistics also show that out of 9,576 compliance reviews, 22.4% were "conditional" and another 4.4% were "unsatisfactory."... This is a concern because tired drivers cause accidents, and incidents involving 80,000 lb tractor trailer rigs tend to be nasty. In 2006, there were 4,995 large truck fatalities in the U.S... The irony is that even as drivers shun EOBRs, adoption of other technologies could make independents more profitable. MIke says truckers with onboard laptops and wireless internet expense software, logbook software and GPS technology can gain a substantial edge. "With a Verizon or Sprint air card a small independent trucker can enhance his profits easily by 20% just by doing something simple like [using] gasbuddy.com," he says. Whoever successfully markets that to the independents, he says, "will become a billionaire."... (EN...???...)
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