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Logbook ATA chairman: Costs, regs forcing out small operators enough and profitable enough to handle the additional cost of regulation, you're going to struggle to survive." Card said a major issue with overregulation is that carriers have to deal with federal bureaucrats, not elected officials. "Congress has given up their responsibility to legislate this country to regulators," he said. – James Jaillet www.vdoroadlog.com Protect your CSA scores with RoadLog™ EOBR. VDO and RoadLog – Trademarks of the Continental Corporation Soon, Electronic On Board Recorders or EOBRs will be required by law in the US. VDO RoadLog EOBR is the easy and affordable compliance tool that can help protect your CSA scores, so that you qualify for the most profitable loads. Text INFO to 205-289-3555 or visit www.ovdinfo.com Smaller carriers can't handle the increased costs of industry regulations and can't hold their heads above water any longer, said Mike Card, chairman of the American Trucking Associations. Card, president of Combined Transport, presented the dire message in May at the Great West Fleet Executive Conference in Las Vegas. Many of these smaller carriers are owned and operated by what Card caalls "the first generation," as they got their starts after deregulation in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a time when doors opened for owner-operators and small fleets to emerge. This generation, however, "will see no baby boom," Card said, as "reregulation" has given them basically only three options for leaving the industry: "merger, sale or death." "Trucking has been consolidated," he said. "The primary reason for consolidation in the trucking industry is the costs associated with increased regulation. We're the most over-'reregulated' industry out there, in my opinion," Card said, referring to the many regulations that have come in the wake of the industry's deregulation. These include hours of service revisions, Compliance Safety Accountability, drugtesting implementation, heavy vehicle use taxes, emissions requirements and many more. "They're all great regulations, but almost all of them have raised the cost of owning a trucking company," he said. "If you're not big • No monthly fees • Plug and play installation • Built-in printer for rapid roadside checks • FMCSA compliant For additional information, call: (855)-ROADLOG or e-mail: roadlog-sales@vdo.com CO1679 Overdrive_OO_RoadLog_halfP_7-13_V1.0.indd 1 Untitled-1 1 Logbook_0713.indd 19 July 2013 | Overdrive | 19 6/14/13 2:03 PM 6/24/13 8:55 AM 6/27/13 10:41 PM