collecters,and lobbyists/lawyers are the ones to gain/profit. The only safety that would happen, would be from having fewer trucks on our highways. Can you say, out of business? With only a few carriers that thwart the law, there is no justification to demand these devices in every single truck. Not about safety, it is however, about information, we know where you've been. Even though you are off duty, we know where you've been. You started your truck yesterday, why didn't you log that 'on duty not driving'. You get the point. True,FMCSA can't regulate the freight rates, they can just regulate everything else. A little side note, the headlines in Detroit read, "Crime Rates Plummet". Not because the police were doing a better job, or the citizens were better folks. It was because, people were leaving Detroit to live in the suburbs. Everything worth stealing, had already been stolen, they beat their chests like Tarzan, proclaiming a huge victory for their city. I see the same thing on the horizon for the trucking industry. With their pockets bulging with cash, beating their chests, crying,'Victory'for the motoring plublic. The FMCSA's own data and reports verify that EOBRS have nothing to do with improving safety. The manufacturers of these devices are the one's really pushing them -- just follow the money trail. If any company wants to use EOBRs let them have at it, but to mandate such a device on a small operation will put that small operation at an even