OOIDA responds to bill mandating EOBRs

GRAIN VALLEY, MO.-- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) responded to the announcement by U.S. Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) on Thursday, March 31 that they were introducing a bill to mandate electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs) for interstate commercial motor carriers.

"With all due respect to Senator Pryor, EOBRs will not improve highway safety. However, they will cost small-business truckers their hard-earned money and their privacy,” said Todd Spencer, Executive Vice President of OOIDA. “EOBRs are nothing more than over-priced record keepers lobbied by big business trucking companies to wipe out small business competition."

--OOIDA Press Release