A federal appellate court has upheld the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s electronic logging device mandate, which now remains on track to go into effect starting on Dec. 18, 2017.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected the argument of the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association, which had sued to throw out the rule on the grounds that it would violate drivers’ rights to privacy under the Fourth Amendment.

In denying OOIDA’s petition for judicial review, the court stated that it found that the ELD rule is “not arbitrary or capricious, nor does it violate the Fourth Amendment.”

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David Cullen

David Cullen

[Former] Business/Washington Contributing Editor

David Cullen comments on the positive and negative factors impacting trucking – from the latest government regulations and policy initiatives coming out of Washington DC to the array of business and societal pressures that also determine what truck-fleet managers must do to ensure their operations keep on driving ahead.

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