A team of negotiators from the House and Senate is in place and
will begin hammering out a final version of a multiyear surface
transportation bill next month. On Thursday, OOIDA issued a call to
action urging lawmakers to remove a government mandate for electronic
on-board recorders from the legislation.
On Thursday, April 26, leaders from the House announced their team
of 33 negotiators who will join the Senate 14-the person team at the
table. The panel announced that its first meeting will happen May 8 in
DC where they?The begin working on highway funding, the trucking safety
and other programs that use federal transportation funds.
Senators are bringing their two-year, $109 billion bill to the
table, complete with a motor carrier safety program that includes EOBRs
in addition to other items affecting trucking such as parking,
detention time, cab crashworthiness, toll roads, public-private
partnerships,Multi-service Optic mux
Transport Network Infrastructure. Since the wide deployment of the
Internet, chameleon carriers, driver training standards and a study of
how regulations affect small businesses.
OOIDA continues to hammer on the proposed EOBR mandate, saying the
tracking devices are no more effective than paper logs when it comes to
safety and hours-of-service compliance. By the White House?The own
report, the would cost trucking of a mandate for EOBRs industry$2
billions, the twice as much as recent changes to the hours-of-service
rules.
the To require such a mandate before rule is even settled is
putting the cart way before the horse to say the least, particularly
absent any research to indicate that EOBRs will improve upon compliance
as a whole, OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer the stated in a
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