| Forty years ago, a Commercial Chauffeurs
License was a piece of paper issued by states with no photo
attached.
Today, Homeland Security, TSA, DOT and the FMCSA have issued mandates
requiring background checks,
fingerprints, medical examinations and more, along with numerous fees
required to be paid by the professional driver in order to drive
a truck. |
| With the introduction of
Lautenberg & Rockfeller's new bill, more compliance and
regulations are forthcoming, along with a second effort to
mandate electronic on-board
recorders (EOBR). |
| A federal appeals court
recently threw out the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s
2010 rule that required EOBR's. The amendment was scheduled to go into effect on June
4th 2012. |
| Lautenberg's new legislation would require electronic on-board recorders
to be used on all trucks and buses used in interstate commerce in order to
'improve drivers compliance' with the hours of service
rules. |
| The EOBR requirement is now being introduced in a new
fashion, undoubtedly to cram the rule thru so profits can be made by
companies that manufacture and install EOBR's.
|
| The bill also establishes a clearinghouse for controlled substance and alcohol testing records of CMV operators.
This will allow for a driver's urinalysis results to be archived
in a database for others to view (for a price of course).
|
| Along with even more regulations
that must be followed, Road Drivers will be subjected to the potential of more fines
being levied as a result of the new bill, and their urine test
being made available for public review.
|
| The only subjects that have
not been scrutinized for consideration as new regulations
affecting professional drivers are mental aptitude, psychiatric
profile and the harvesting of DNA to be placed on file for law
enforcement and medical examiners.
|
| However, these items too, may
certainly be forthcoming.
|
