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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
No such thing in the trucking world. Oh, companies have their black boxes with which they monitor their drivers, but he said they are not required to turn them over to the DOT for periodic monitoring (this column was written years ago - does anyone know if this has changed?). That, and the boxes can give the speed of the truck, but not the speed limit of the stretch of road it is travelling. I.e., it could be doing 60, with everything looking just fine, but it might actually be in a 45 zone.
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Trucking companies keep up with their drivers' speed and location by GPS. A bud of mine who owns/runs a trucking company told me this in '97. He can watch his drivers on a large computer screen that shows the truck's location and speed as well as the speed limit on that particular stretch of road.
He tells his drivers to drive the speed limit or else they're fired.