{"id":2226,"date":"2017-07-27T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/ata-calls-to-stay-the-course-on-elds\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:49:04","slug":"ata-calls-to-stay-the-course-on-elds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/ata-calls-to-stay-the-course-on-elds\/","title":{"rendered":"ATA Calls to Stay the Course on ELDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Trucking Associations (ATA)\u00a0is calling on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to stay on track toward a December rollout of mandated Electronic Logging Devices.<\/p>\n

U.S. Representative Brian Babin has introduced legislation to delay the mandate by two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupporters of a delay are attempting to accomplish, almost at the 11th hour, what they\u2019ve been unable to do in the courts, Congress or with the agency: roll back this common sense, data-supported regulation based on at best specious and at worst outright dishonest arguments,\u201d says Bill Sullivan, ATA executive vice president \u2013 advocacy, in a letter to the administration\u2019s deputy administrator.<\/p>\n

Sullivan said efforts to delay the rollout are \u201cmisguided, are supported by misinformation, and are simply an attempt to evade compliance with the existing laws and regulations governing duty hours and driver fatigue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter from ATA cited an 11.7% drop in crash rates and 50% drop in Hours of Service violations in a 2014 administration report<\/a> that compared paper and electronic logs. It also noted that arguments against Electronic Logging Devices have been rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.<\/p>\n

Heavy Duty Trucking reports the letter rejects arguments that the devices infringe on a driver\u2019s rights to privacy, noting that the ELDs simply record Hours of Service by different means, and that privacy and harassment protection has been built into the rules. As for whether the timing would affect holiday shipments from arriving on time, he added that the rule does not place any new limits on the hours a driver can work. \u201cIt is irrational to believe that the only way America\u2019s holiday gifts can be delivered is by maintaining an antiquated paper system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Referencing worries that drivers will change careers because of such a mandate, Sullivan noted that many drivers already use the devices. \u201cThe argument that drivers will quit en masse doesn\u2019t hold water,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, ATA members repeatedly tell me that after initially resisting using ELDs, their drivers now swear by the technology and refuse to work without it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne final note on this rule \u2013 beyond being thoroughly debated and litigated \u2013 using an electronic logging device to record hours-of-service is the right thing to do. It is using more accurate, easier to access and most importantly, more difficult to falsify, 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century technology to demonstrate compliance with the HOS rather than an easy-to-falsify, error prone and 18th <\/sup>Century technology of a paper and pencil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy again raising this issue, Congress has begun a process that may result in FMCSA being required to produce yet another report to address issues relating to the implementation and use of Electronic Logging Devices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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