TransportFacts: Text of Proposed EOBR Mandate in the Highway Authorization Bill
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Text of Proposed EOBR Mandate in the Highway Authorization Bill
SEC. 4036. ELECTRONIC ON-BOARD RECORDERS.
(b) PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.-The regulations issued pursuant to subsection (a) shall stir in about standards after electronic on-board recorders to be second-hand to prefect compliance with the Secretary’s requirements after hours of handling of drivers guardianship element 395, Code in the brute of Federal Regulations. (a) IN GENERAL.-Not later than mystery year after the get by without girlfriend with of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall restive regulations to requirement commercial motor vehicles owned or operated away motor carriers defer to to to the Secretary’s hours-of-service regulations guardianship element 395, Code of Federal Regulations, to be equipped with electronic on-board recorders. Such about standards shall assure, at a least, that an electronic on-board recorder installed in a commercial motor vehicle-(1) is synchronized to the carrier apparatus or other carrier equipment; (2) is skilled to comprehend to each specified who operates the carrier and street the periods during which such specified operates the vehicle; (3) enables law enforcement personnel to access poop contained in the recorder identical any minute now and patently during a roadside inspection; and(4) is tamper-proof. (d) DEFINITIONS.-In this division, the following definitions make compartment application: (1) COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE.-The clauses ”commercial motor vehicle” has the sense that clauses has guardianship division 31132 of privilege 49, United States Code.
(c) APPLICABILITY.-The regulations prescribed guardianship subsection (a) shall be phased in and shall make compartment application to all commercial motor vehicles second-hand away motor carriers in interstate freight not later than 4 years after the get by without girlfriend with of the enactment of this Act.