Electronic on-board recorders may be here to stay for truckers

The American Trucking Associations recently announced the filing of an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, declaring its support for truck driving safety and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's defense of electronic logging devices. 

"ATA supports the use of electronic logging devices, which have demonstrated the ability to improve carriers' compliance with FMCSA's hours-of-service regulations," said Bill Graves, president and CEO of the ATA . "With this filing, we urge the Court to reject the calls to prevent fleets from using these powerful compliance tools."

Electronic logging devices allow trucking companies to view information pertaining to how many consecutive hours a trucker has been driving, and gives companies the ability to more easily keep drivers aligned with the new regulations.

The FMCSA is seeking to make electronic logging devices mandatory for company's with chronic hours-of-service violations. The agency recently told Congress it is conducting listening sessions on driver harassment and asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee to prepare materials in support of this proposed rulemaking.

Electronic on-board recorders may be here to stay for truckers

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012