EOBR Recommendations Finished

WASHINGTON — The Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee finished their recommendations to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on the pending electronic onboard recorder requirement.

The details of the recommendations are set to be released late this week or early next week. The committee will give counsel on 16 separate issues, from a mechanism for showing the log to the inspecting officer to data security and certification of EOBRs.

The committee of 19 officials from industry, the emfocement community and labor and safety groups has been working on the recommendations for months. While the FMCSA is not bound by the committee’s suggestions, they are closely involved in the deliberations.

The EOBR rule will sit idle for the time being, with the FMCSA not appealing a court decision vacating the rule, scheduled to take effect next June, but will instead focus on the court’s concerns about preventing driver harassment.

This decision came as a result of a petition by various independent drivers and the Owner-Operator Independent Driver Association, who challenged the rule that will require chronic violators of the hours-of-service rules to install EOBRs.

The FMCSA has estimated that the rule would affect 5,700 carriers.
 


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