Questions & Thoughts On New Rules About To Be Implimented

Yeah professional drivers running 70 in trucks are the problem, not cars running 80-100 with untrained drivers. This is ridiculous. Also has nothing to with companys running us 14 hour shifts at all hours

 

Rules are meant to be broken!

 

More accidents will be caused by speed limiters.

 

much much to easy to set an ecm w/max speed&the defeat the speed limiter in other places....that if they even knew where to look...they wouldn't know what they were lookin at or what it meant

 

BC looked at speed limiters, but after a study they decided against it as on most of their highways trucks have a hard time breaking 90 kph. Other than the lower mainland and the Coquihalla

 

ELD's are slightly different from the EOBR devices currently being used. The new regulations, promised in Oct 2015 but still not delivered( about the 20th delay since the mandate was passed by Congress in the middle 90's) will set the exact parameters for what data has to be captured from the truck.
I suspect many court challenges to the rules that will be published, several revisions and subsequent public comment which will delay things further. It is only after the final rule is published and accepted by all parties that the clock on 2 year implementation will start. I refuse to speculate on the timeframe, anyone who does is just guessing. Plus we don't know what President Trump will do about it...
Trucks with mechanical engines comprise such a small portion of the vehicles registered they will be ignored. Don't look for a great big push for the industry to start using them.
Speed limiters being pushed by a narrow but powerful section of the industry(ATA and mega carriers) are meeting stronger headwinds. The general public is already being inconvenienced by the existing speed limited trucks whose drivers insist on passing one another with a fraction of a mph between them, tying up the highway for miles. They are not clamoring for this change, so there is little political will for it. Court challenges await for that also.

 

If you work for a company that actually pays you what your worth you don't need to drive 70 and work 14 hours a day . Canada should limit there trucks to 55 until they learn how to drive its down right scary up there some days.