I think we can say that WE are all flustered with the ELD mandate…. So please post your best ELD meme…
Posted by Indiana State Police – Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division on Wednesday, November 8, 2017
The Indiana State Police truck enforcement unit shared this one (above) on their Facebook page, noting like many truckers no small amount of frustration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s rule requiring use of electronic logging devices come this December for most truckers. As you can see in the ISP moderator’s remarked under the meme, a request was put out for more, and boy did they get ’em.
What might be my favorite among the memes isn’t actually a meme, however, but something a moderator posted in response to trucker’s question about his personal thoughts on ELDs generally. Those thoughts I’ve found to be not exactly uncommon in off-the-record-type conversations with law enforcement around the nation over the years:
This is my personal opinion: I think that the HOS should be re-evaluated and the ELDs should be used as a bad boy item for carriers that have been found to need help with compliance issues! That is just my opinion.
Hope yet for change? The wheels of government turn very slowly, of course, but hey, since I last looked, with continued grassroots efforts on influencing lawmakers there have been more to sign on as cosponsors in a steady drip — to 64 up from around 50 the early-October week of the ELD protests — to the H.R. 3282 ELD Extension Act bill that would delay the mandate two years to give some time, potentially, for something like the above to eventuate. I’d give it an unlikely at this point, but, again, one can hope — Texas rep Brian Babin, principal sponsor of the bill, issued a letter to Trump today asking for an executive order to delay the mandate by a few months, at least:
