Did OOIDA’s attorneys have on running shoes? Maybe because the electronic log rule lawsuit sure got filed fast.
That’s the headline of the Facebook post announcing the Owner-Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) has taken the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrations (FMCSA) to court over it’s newly released Electronic Log mandate. The OOIDA wasted no time in taking in what it calls the heavy-handed mandate to task.
The FMCSA released it’s final rule on December 10, 2015 which will require electronic logs in all 2000 and newer commercial motor vehicle operating in interstate commerce by December 16, 2017. The OOIDA filed a Petition for Review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on December 11, 2015 seeking to vacate the rule.
“This rule has potential to have the single largest, most negative impact on the industry than anything else FMCSA has done,” OOIDA President Jim Johnston said. “We intend to fight this with all the resources we have available.”
Johnston challenged the justifications the agency and anti-trucking groups have used to promote the mandated use of the devices.
“This regulation is absolutely the most outrageous intrusion into the rights of professional truckers imaginable and will do nothing at all to improve highway safety. In fact, we firmly believe it will do exactly the opposite by placing even more pressure and stress on drivers than they already deal with,” Johnston said.
The OOIDA has already taken the FMCSA to court over their previous version of e-logging rules and successfully won which sent the FMCSA back to the drawing board to restructure it to what we see today. What exactly their arguments are have not been outlined as of yet these will be laid out in the next few weeks during subsequent filings and oral arguments in court.
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