California Recorder Bill Dies in Committee Vote
A bill that would have required trucks registered in California to be equipped with electronic onboard recorders is dead, at least for this year.The California Assembly’s Transportation Committee deadlocked on the measure to require the devices in trucks weighing more than 26,000 pounds. The vote in committee was 7-7, three aye votes short of needed to send the measure to the Assembly floor. The bill had passed the California Senate on June 13.
The measure would have made California the only state to mandate onboard recorders. It resembles a plan that was proposed on a national level by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, but that idea – as part of the rewrite of federal hours-of-service regulations — was put on hold by Congress at least until Oct. 1 in the face of strong opposition from the trucking industry.
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