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2 www.studentdriverplacement.com February '16 T he enforcement date of the fresh- ly published federal rule requiring truck operators to use electronic logging devices to track their hours-of- service is just a li le less than two years away — Dec. 16, 2017. Assuming the rule isn't held up in court – and at least one chal- lenge, from OOIDA, has been issued to date – operators of post-1999 model year trucks not running a 395.15-compliant AOBRD-type e-log as of last month will need to have an ELD in place and in use by that date. Or else. What exactly that "else" entails, however, is still unknown, and the U.S. DOT's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is still in the process of fi nalizing enforcement measures for the ELD mandate, says FMCSA spokesman Duane De- bruyne, given that the rule's compli- ance date is still about two years away. "Corresponding enforcement ac- tions/civil penalties for noncompli- ance are to be determined," De- bruyne said in an email response to an Overdrive inquiry. Speculating in September during an address at FTR's annual confer- ence, former FMCSA Admin- istrator Annette Sandberg said enforcement could be as simple as "one strike, you're out," hinting that opera- tors who fail to comply with the mandate by December 2017 would face either a temporary shutdown, such as a standard out- of-service order, or perhaps even a more severe shutdown order. ◆ |Feature | Penalties for not having E-log still in the works By James Jaillet