Legal Opinion
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Ass'n v. United States Department of Transportation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 31, 2016No. 15-3756PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Since 1935, federal law has regulated the hours of service of truck drivers operating in interstate commerce. The regulations are intended to reduce fatigue-related accidents, and they require drivers to keep paper records showing their driving time and other on-duty time. Compliance has long been an issue, though, because it is easy to insert an error in paper records, whether intentionally or not.
In 2012, Congress directed the Department of Transportation to issue regulations to require most interstate commercial motor vehicles to install electronic logging devices…
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