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Sep 19, 2016

ELECTRONIC LOGGING DEVICES FOR TRUCKS * USA: ELDs

* Virginia - Truckers are facing a new kind of scrutiny — electronic data tracking


---  Big-rig driver John “Randy” Saunders recently had a scare – caused by a turtle... He was going 37 mph... If he had braked hard enough to drop his speed by 27 mph in three seconds, an electronic-logging device, or “ELD,” in his truck would have recorded the whole thing: his exact speed, digital snapshots of his actions in the moments before he braked, and latitude and longitude, among other things... Saunders would have been required to go back to his company’s office and fill out paperwork explaining why he had to brake so hard – even though he had hit nothing... As it turns out, he hadn’t triggered what’s known as a “hard brake violation.” But his experience reflects the extent to which virtually every movement of a truck driver is under close scrutiny, in one form or another... The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is requiring commercial truck and bus drivers to use electronic-logging devices beginning in December 2017... The regulatory agency estimates that using the devices will result in annual savings of more than $1 billion, by cutting the expense of processing all that paper. It’ll also save an estimated 26 lives a year and prevent 562 injuries resulting from crashes involving big commercial motor vehicles, according to a statement announcing the rule’s adoption in December...
 (Photo: Mike Innes, 52, of Norfolk, is a distpacher at Century Express. He explains the installation of a dash link for "engine-connected-electronic-log")   --   Norfolk, VA, USA - The Virginian-Pilot, by Robert McCabe - Sep 17, 2016

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May 3, 2016

ELECTRONIC LOGGING DEVICES * USA: Trucking are ready to comply with?

* Virginia - New Rules: Paper logs out and ELD are in for tracking truck drivers HOS

--- In December 2015, the electronic logging device (ELD) rule was announced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). Basically the rule requires carriers and drivers who use paper logs or logging software to switch to electronic logging by December 2017... Carriers already using onboard recording devices prior to the compliance date will have an extra two years to transition to ELDs... An ELD synchronizes with a vehicle’s engine to automatically record driving time and track a driver’s hours of service (HOS), and one reason for the switch is to make it harder for drivers to cheat on their hours if the truck’s movements are electronically monitored and recorded... But some opponents of the rule are saying that it may initially put smaller carriers and one-man operations out of business. A concern is this would ultimately drive more business to the larger carriers who will be in a position to raise their rates... If a lot of the smaller operations do shut down, this “could send truckload rates higher, perhaps by double-digits,” according to a recent JOC.com article... 
Ashland, VA, USA - Pallet Enterprise, by Lisa Monroe - 1 May 2016

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Oct 30, 2015

ELECTRONIC LOGGING DEVICES * Canada - Atlantic trucking industry split on

* Nova Scotia - Some people are welcoming their use, while others feel they don't offer enough flexibility


-- Nova Scotia trucking companies are in the midst of adopting a new electronic logging system that's supposed to make the industry safer and more efficient, but not everyone in the industry is convinced it does those things... Some companies have already adopted electronic logging devices that track transport trucks movements and log the number of hours a driver is on the road... When a driver is about to exceed the number of hours they are permitted to drive, a warning goes off telling the driver to pull over. It's a safety feature that's meant to keep tired drivers off the road... Longtime truck driver Wayne Churchill says this feature makes drivers be like robots. "You got to be able to shut down and start up when that machine tells ya," he said. This can pose complications because the body isn't necessarily in sync with what the technology is saying, says Churchill... Jean-Marc Picard, executive director of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association said, the electronic system logs every move a transport truck makes, companies can use that information to find efficiencies in their systems... The U.S. is making electronic logging devices mandatory by 2018 and Picard says if Canada doesn't enact similar legislation, there could be problems because so many Canadian operators travel to the U.S... He said talks are underway between the provinces and the federal government to try and make electronic logging mandatory across the country...
(Photo by Jason Kryk/Canadian Press - Border USA/Canada)   --  Halifax, NS, CAN - CBC News, by David Burke - Oct 27, 2015

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Sep 6, 2007

ELECTRONIC LOGS DEBATE * USA - Can Stop Truck Accidents

Tampa,FL,USA -InjuryBoard.com -3 Sept 2007: -- ... Some trucking firms repeatedly violate the rules and offer financial incentives to truck drivers to break the trucking safety rules. In fact most long distance 18 wheel truck drivers are paid by the mile not by the hour and thus have an incentive to drive longer distances even if that means driving longer or faster than the safety regulations allow. Paper logs are used to track the hours and miles that are driven by truckers on the highway. Unfortunately these paper logs can be forged, doctored and altered with ease. I have personally worked a truck accident case involving a large 18 wheeler and the written logs were so bad it was a joke. Apparently that driver could drive at the speed limit from Tennessee to Orlando, Florida in 12 hours with 8 hours of sleep included in that time. The driver also refused to take the mandatory post crash drug and alcohol test after being involved in a trucking versus auto accident...

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Aug 27, 2007

ELECTRONIC LOGS DEBATE * USA - Trucker logbooks doubted

Most truckers play by the rules

Milwaukee,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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Aug 12, 2007

Electronic logs * USA - Touted as safety solution

Rule needed to stop truck drivers from cheating, some say - Most truckers play by the rules

Milwaukee,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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