The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) feels that the new Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate will help address harassment or coercion of drivers by motor carriers to operate beyond their regulated hours.
In terms of the FMCSA’s definition, harassment refers to hours-of-service violations only. Coercion is not limited to hours-of-service and may pertain to a broad scope of FMCSA regulations. We’ll discuss coercion more in a later post. Or, you can read more about the differences here: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/faq/what-are-differences-between-harassment-and-coercion
The following are examples of actions committed by the motor carrier that would be considered driver harassment:
According to the FMCSA, ELDs will prevent driver harassment in the following ways:
Source: https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/faq/how-does-eld-rule-address-harassment-drivers-using-elds
A driver should file a written complaint through the National Consumer Complaint Database at https://nccdb.fmcsa.dot.gov/nccdb/home.aspx or with his or her state FMCSA administrator.
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