Those questions are still mysteries, said former FMCSA Administrator Annette Sandberg this week at FTR’s Transportation Conference in Indianapolis.
Sandberg, who ran the agency in the early part of last decade, said she could see FMCSA enforcing it as “one strike and you’re out” policy.
“It’s a mandatory regulation,” she said, meaning enforcers likely will drop a carriers’ safety rating to Unsatisfactory, giving them 60 days to comply with the rule or be shut down. “A two-truck carrier might be able to do that,” she said. “But a fleet with 2,000? Not a chance. Some carriers will just throw up their hands and sell to somebody already on it. I suspect that’s what’s going to happen.”
FMCSA projected this week the rule could be published at the end of next month. It could include answers to some of the enforcement questions in it.
Reevaluating impact of ELDs: A 10 percent washout?
As I wrote last week, the ELD mandate is expected to take a bite out of the number of trucks and drivers once enforcement is in effect. It perhaps could be more than the oft-predicted 3 to 5 percent, however, says Werner President and COO Derek Leathers.
