FMCSA and GPS

[Phantom433a]

My company sent out a messege Friday saying that the FMCSA has passed a ruling that any truck with a company installed GPS system must make sure that all logs and gps systems match up 100%. Anyone seen or heard anything about this about this? Also we are being told that a company with so many trucks HAS to have gps....WTF? When did this happen?

[mike3fan]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has rescinded a policy barring use of GPS records to verify compliance with the hours of service rules.

Since 1997 the agency has taken a hands-off approach to using data from advanced technologies such as GPS as an enforcement tool "in order to promote and encourage use of these new technologies by the industry."

Now that goal has been achieved, the agency said. And field staff have begun to see situations in which the hands-off policy is harming enforcement, said FMCSA Administrator John Hill. Enforcement officials were reporting that they could see obvious violators of HOS rules but could not get to their GPS records to prove it, Hill said.

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[Jackrabbit379]

I don't use the 15 minute incriments on my log book, but I keep mine pretty darn close with my computer.