How does GPS tracking of Mexican trucks, make the trucks or the drivers "Safer"?
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a statement Thursday saying the tracking plan jointly developed by FMCSA and Mexico’s Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes applies to both U.S. and Mexican trucks in the program.
"This will give us the ability to monitor every vehicle from Mexico and ensure all companies are following our strict safety requirements, including those governing hours of service and sabotage," said John Hill, FMCSA administrator.
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7 Comments
Comment #995
GPS tracking can’t make Mexican trucks or their drivers "safer", but it can tell us where there truck broke down, where they’re at and how many hours they’ve been driving in a day.
Comment #994
GPS will help you see where you are , help you find your finish and see other truck driwers location ..
Depens what gps system you hawe
Comment #992
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We will at least know where the TRUCK is.
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It may be possible to check speed on the truck and make them slow down.
Comment #993
This is just more of the same. DOT has been trying to figure ways to monitor US drivers for quite awhile. When a driver gets only say40 cents a mile and can only drive for 10hrs once a "period starts" including the 2or 3 hours he sits at a dock(not getting paid) we have always found ways to get a few more miles a day. Plus they pay us on old "as the crow flies" platte maps. The whole system is screwed up where the DOT needs to make sure the driver stays safe but ALSO the companies and all their little schemes with loading and unloading trucks etc etc.quit screwing the driver so he gets a fair days pay. Say after loading and unloading you actually drive 8hrs in a day and avg 60mi/hr for 480miles — that’s a whopping total of $192. but he had to pay for his own pallets at $4 for a cost of $80 and when he unloads the company getting the product will charge him ,now get this, charge the driver, $120 to unload their product off his truck. The whole system is one big screwed up mess.(FUBAR) And Teamsters does not represent even 30% of the drivers anymore so you can say trucking is a unionless profession. Now comes the Mexicans. So now DOT is going to make sure you dont break the hour rules and try to make a halfway decent living!
Comment #991
I think that the GPS system will help to some degree. Our own drivers are forced to follow strict guidelines enforced by the DOT, and this is a step to ensure that the Mexican drivers will have to follow them as well. It’s a decent start.
Comment #990
GPS devices can be altered. There is insufficient funds to monitor existing technology much less anything else. The next question that follows: Who will monitor the monitors? It is bureaucracy at its worst.
Comment #989
It doesn’t. Their trucks don’t have pass an inspection like U.S. trucks either in the USA or Mexico. So the only good the GPS is locating the trucks after they break down or cause an accident because of its sub standard operating condition.