30-day Federal Register Notice Comment 0073

Anonymous - Comments
This is a Comment on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA) Notice: Agency Information
Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and
Approvals Driver and Carrier Surveys Related to
Electronic Onboard Recorders and Potential
Harassment Deriving From Use

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Due Jun 27 2013, at 11:59 PM ET

ID: FMCSA-2012-0309-0073
Tracking Number: 1jx-8658-d1un
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Harassment occurs when a national database of every
driver's HOS is created and scoured through for noncompliance before a trucking company even has a chance
to respond. Instead of providing an officer on the roadside
with just real-time HOS information, the government will
require us to wirelessly transmit data every time we time
log in or log out and this suddenly becomes a huge privacy
concern. Will location data be collected as well? Will data
have to be submitted to government databases at the
moment I log in or log out of the EOBR , instead of just
being called up at the moment of a compliance check?
Enforcement is never happy with just the data needed to
create the same level of confidence you have today with
paper logs. Instead, elogs give DOT the opportunity to
collect so much more additional data that they haven't had
before and all of this can be collected under the guise of
covering off endless 'what-if' scenarios to catch drivers
skirting the rules. Except by the time you are done covering
off being able to catch every possibility of rule breaking,
you are way beyond what you can do today with a paper
logs and way over the line on personal and corporate
privacy. This will lead to many lawsuits.

Date Posted: Jun 28, 2013
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Submitter Name: Anonymous