Onboard Recorder Rule is going to Wait

It looks like the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will not publish their final rule expanding the use of EOBR's before President Bush leaves office.

"I don't know if we are going to get it out or not; it doesn't look like we are making progress at this point," Federal Motor Carrier Safety administrator John Hill said Thursday.

That certainly does not mean it is dead. In 2008 a group of Senators introduced legislation that would mandate the use of EOBR's. The NTSB has stepped up their campaign to mandate the use of EOBR's. Finally, the incoming administration of President-Elect Obama can certainly publish the new EOBR rule as well.