* New Jersey - Shippers nervous about truck capacity not waiting to act on ELDs
... Trucking companies are already reining in capacity swelled by nearly 285,000 truck orders last year. Now cancelled orders are racking up, along with the unsold inventories of heavy trucks at dealership lots and manufacturers... The big unknown at the conference and the one that keeps shippers awake is the potential impact of the electronic logging mandate. The U.S. will require truck drivers to replace paper logbooks for recording hours of service with electronic logging devices starting by December 2017. That’s expected to squeeze truck capacity, but no one really knows by how much or how soon... As many as half of U.S. trucking companies do not yet have ELDs, Leathers said, and the second round of purchasers are likely to be smaller companies that will initially lose more productivity, thanks to reduced truck utilization, than their larger competitors did. Additionally, those carriers lost somewhere between 3 percent and 5 percent of their productivity when they installed ELDs... That’s the very reason shippers aren’t delaying action on ELDs, but are starting to incorporate requirements that carriers have ELDs or a plan to adopt them by December 2017 in contract bids...
Newark, NJ, USA - JOC, by William B. Cassidy - May 03, 2016
* Missouri - OOIDA: Court decision on e-log mandate could come by end of 2016
--- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association says it expects the courts to rule by year’s end on whether or not to uphold a DOT rule to require truckers to use electronic logging devices to track hours of service... OOIDA filed a lawsuit earlier this year with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit asking the court to strike down the rule. OOIDA argued in its legal complaint that the mandate violates truckers’ 4th Amendment rights and does not have a safety benefit...
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