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Feb 11, 2012

EOBR * USA

* DC - First on-board recorder reg withdrawn but second proceeds

Washington,DC,USA -Land Line, by David Tanner -10 Feb 2012: -- Six months after a federal judge ruled in favor of OOIDA and ordered the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to vacate its initial rule on electronic on-board recorders, the agency is taking steps to strike the rule from the books. At the same time, however, the agency announced plans to proceed with a separate EOBR rule that addresses the issue of driver harassment... In August 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ordered the FMCSA to vacate its initial final rule after OOIDA pointed out that the agency had failed to address the issue of on-board recorders being used to harass drivers. The harassment issue, one of three arguments presented by the Association, was all it took for the court to rule in OOIDA’s favor in that case ...   That rule, dubbed EOBR 1, would have required on-board recorders for carriers with substandard hours of service compliance records...   In a Federal Register notice scheduled to publish on Monday, Feb. 13, FMCSA officials say they will officially remove the regulatory text of EOBR 1 from the regs...


* Opinion: EOBRs Across the Pond. Records on Data Cards Carried by Drivers Open European Fleets to Strict

Arlington,VA,USA -Transport Topics, by Oliver Dixon -13 Feb 2012: ... In May 2006, Europe’s trucking regulations made it compulsory to have an electronic onboard recorder — termed digital tachograph on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean — on all newly registered vehicles weighing more than 3,500 kilograms (about 7,716 pounds). And while European truckers initially had problems with the original devices — they rounded up minutes, meaning that drivers engaged in collection-and-delivery work could lose up to 30 minutes a day from their allowable driving time — trucking’s response is becoming less grudging with the implementation of the second generation of tachographs, which are digital... Digital tachographs record data onto a chip-enabled driver card that is the same size as a credit card. Driving a vehicle without one is an operating violation, and a damaged card must be replaced in 15 days. During that interim period, the driver has to take manual printouts from the tachograph at the beginning and at the end of the shift. In addition, data from the card must be downloaded at least once every 28 days by the operator of the relevant vehicle... The driver card also can be a very effective enforcement tool... The driver card also can show driving-time offenses over the previous 28 days, some countries have equipped their police cars with credit card readers, and others have police escort the offending driver to an ATM to settle the account... In addition to the driver card, three other cards are required in Europe: A control card is issued to police and law enforcement agencies that conduct roadside checks; a workshop card is issued to companies that fit and calibrate the tachographs; and an operator’s card is issued to the vehicle’s license holder. These cards enable data from the vehicle’s tachograph to be downloaded at least once every 56 days — a legal requirement... For U.S. carriers, however, the European experience throws up an interesting and potentially worrisome possibility...

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