as well as any other interested party may gain access at any time. The privacy issue is a red herring in the debate. The third point is liability and risk assessment. It has been my experience as a fleet owner and driver that there is a good reason why some drivers do not want anyone seeing what they are doing. There is an ideology that suggests that if we wont police ourselves, then someone will do it for us. That being said, in this present age, I welcome EOBRs because they take the falsification argument out of trucking opponents hands. I would even welcome 24/hr serveillance camerasand a complete onbord recording set up. As long as I am in accordance with the law, it makes the job of some personal injury lawyer that much harder. Remeber, people dont just go after companies anymore. They will go after we the drivers also. I for one do not want to owe the rest of my life to some other person because I could not prove my case. If we will accept and use the new regulations as a tool for our benefit, I belive that it will eventually make the best of us more valuable in the long term. To sum up , truckdrivers are not like in our society, and for a few good reasons. However, the government has the authority to madate EOBRs and enforce their use, information privacy for truckdrivers does not exist in any substantial form, and in