Autonomous Trucks
In an effort to help convince federal trucking regulators to better define when truck drivers can legitimately use personal conveyance time, a group of hand-picked certified inspectors nationwide are compiling inspection data on drivers who log conveyance time during the month of August. “Every time we’ve requested it, they said they need safety data to support it.”So earlier this summer, CVSA’s board gave the go-ahead for the data collection effort, he said. The subject of personal conveyance has been lingering between CVSA and FMCSA for some time. Disbrow said they have asked all 50 states for their most detailed inspectors to provide notes on personal conveyance data they collect in August. Of those violations, 61% resulted in the driver being placed out of service because their misuse of personal conveyance was an attempt to conceal extra driving time.