Posted on 04/01/2024 2:36:52 AM PDT by CFW
A Department of Transportation component slammed the brakes following semi-furious opposition to its proposal for "on demand" law enforcement surveillance of commercial vehicles a year and a half ago.
It took another six months to turn over the records after a FOIA lawsuit to compel their release, a day before they were due in court Thursday, with no indication yet from FMCSA when it would release a final rule.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration had internal conversations about those public comments over several months, including via personal email, at the same time it was stalling a Freedom of Information Act request for its communications about the "constitutional implications" of the electronic-tracking advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM).
What can the public learn from the nearly 500 pages? Almost nothing.
FMCSA blanked out all but 30 pages under the FOIA exemption for "deliberative process privilege," a redaction notation that appears more than 500 times in the production to the Bader Family Foundation, more than 30 of those paired with the notation "attorney-client privileged."
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Pete is queer that’s all. he has no other credential
And THAT is the cold, hard truth of the matter.. :(
This is a ‘Pilot’ program, (pun intended).
By being able to ‘track’ every commercial vehicle, truck, trailer or bus, they will develop a system to track every automobile on the road..........................
In the 1990s, I was an interstate truck driver in the midwest. The best part of the job was “nobody looking over your shoulder”. As long as your pick-ups and deliveries were on time, nobody cared what route you took or what you did in between loads. With the tracking and micro-management these days, I’m glad to be retired.
Pssst we already have “on demand” law enforcement surveillance deep state mum but the word is out any way.
What about people like me who NEVER carry a cell phone because I know it can be tracked and it’s NOBODYS business where, when, or why I am going somewhere.
My truck does not have any advanced electronics and I pay cash for fuel.
SCREW’EM.
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