EnGenX is able to meet all current and future requirments effective 2012. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has recently moved towards the strictest approach for its new requirements for electronic onboard recorders. The rule will go into effect June 1, 2012 stating that carriers who violate hours of service rules 10 percent of the time must use electronic onboard recorders to track drivers’ hours. This rule will affect close to 5,700 interstate carriers. This group of carriers has a higher crash rate that is higher than the industry average, 90 percent higher than the general population in two compliance reviews. If the standard is violated carriers will have to install recorders on all of their trucks, the year the truck was built will be not be a factor in the requirement, and use the recorders to track driver hours for at least two years. However; there will be an exception for carriers that install automatic onboard recorders, such as EnGenX's technology, before they are found in violation by the compliance review. With free automatic updates from EnGenX there will never be the concern if the solution is update with the latest requirements. Carriers that violate the standard, and do not install recorders will not be allowed to operate on the interstate commerce. For-hire carriers also risk losing their operating authority. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said, "We are committed to cracking down on carriers and drivers who put people on our roads and highways are at risks, this gives up another tool to enforce hours of service restrictions on drivers who attempt to get around the rules."
The devices will be required to be integrally synchronized to the truck's engine. EnGenX's solution includes a device that is installed into the vehicle automatically synchronizing the technology with the engine. The records will also have to be able to instantly track the truck's location at each change of duty status and while the truck is in motion. EnGenX is all web based, fleet managers will be able to monitor and track nearly every aspect they need to know about their fleet including current location and idle times, which complies with security requirements. The device must also provide a digital file for a police officers to read on a computer. EnGenX provides a flash drive with each component so that in the event a police officer needs to view a driver's log the technology will convert the data into a standard format for the police laptop. The information on the log will include driver's name, sleeper berth and off-duty, date, time, truck location, and distance traveled. EnGenX can show all these things using global positioning technology.
One of the main concerns with the new requirements is the devices will not be tamper proof so that drivers could alter the information in the recorders. EnGenX's technology is tamper proof in that the devices are encrypted not allowing drivers an opportunity to tamper with the device. EnGenX offers a reasonable cost with free automatic updates making the full requirements and being a able to rely on customer service a simple process. With 2012 vastly approaching let EnGenX be your preventive tactic to avoid bad compliance reviews.
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