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Overdrive
| December 2014
Based on a survey, the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration has
concluded that carrier harassment
of drivers, especially when attributed
to electronic logging devices, is not a
common problem.
The agency on Nov. 13 released
the report "Attitudes of Truck Drivers
and Carriers on the Use of Electronic
Logging Devices." After interviewing
628 drivers, FMCSA found that
regardless of whether drivers use
paper logs or ELDs, few said they felt
harassed by their carriers in ways that
affect hours of service compliance.
"The evidence in this survey
research does not support concluding
that harassment occurs due to being
in a situation where HOS are logged
using ELDs," the report says.
Though drivers who use ELDs
reported more frequent instances of
harassment via interrupted off-duty
time with messages at inappropriate
times, most driver respondents did not
attribute 95 percent or more instances
of harassment to the use of ELDs.
More than 70 percent of the driv-
ers surveyed said the following was
true for their use of ELDs: (1) They
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save time and make hours compliance
easier, (3) their relationship with their
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and (4) they felt more protected from
overbearing management.
However, more than half also said
that the following was true about their
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