Technology is great for the big companies.  It provides them easy fleet wide tracking and a myriad of stats.  Receiving all this info for analysis and processing is a benefit for them.  The"feel good" the government gets from "riding along" via a box; works for them.   On the flip side, small companies and especially O/Os are crushed by these gadgets.  They could careless about the data collected, which is what justifies the cost of the system.   Often their bobtail is also their transport home.  EOBRs and tech gadgets in general our out of their budget.  It is just another method of oppressing the small business person in search of a one-size fits all answer.

For the want of the proper name the EOBR should be called the ultimate control   device in trucking. It does not improve safety. In fact it causes  unsafe conditions in the cab and forcing the American driver to share the road with unsafe truckers due to  idiot laws brought on by un knowing govt suit wearing bone. heads.  

These EOBR are   nothing but a control device . It is going to remove the independence and free will of truckers. It will put all of the drivers in the category of slave labor  and  do as your told without regard to the driver or road or weather condition. It matters not if they are in rush hr traffic or not feeling well.  EOBR's are going to be detrimental to free enterprise and the American way.

All this is mostly due to Truck drivers not policing our own ranks over the years and we are now paying for our lack of intervention. 

One thing to think about.

If we were called and classed  professional by the government would this be happening? According to our own Government we are called UN skilled labor. 

We allowed it to happen. We perpetuated it by these driving school mills turning out less than qualified steering wheel holders.    Nobody to blame but ourselves. So sad that the Knights of the road are soon to be a memory of the past.

Sure the bigger companies are all about it because they want to level the field for themselves.  None of this would  be an issue it the all mighty FMCSA wouldn't have taken the split sleeper birth option away for drivers. With a no split sleeper birth provison  drivers lie about shipper or reciever detention and are forced to work the max of 14 or more hours everyday.  Large carriers have the abitlity to do many things when H.O.S. is a problem, E.O.R.B's would put a lot of companies out of business which is of course what the majors want.

Safety is paramount in this business but the reality of what trucking is and that reality of what the FMCSA thinks trucking is, is two differnet things.  Don't blame me....look at all ot the data the FMCSA won't show, look at all the lawsuits filed against the FMSCA, look at new medical card program were they put the horse before the apple cart.

 In my opinion the FMCSA is the worst branch in Goverment for acutally understanding the business that they are directing....what shambles.