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Haulin’ Data: How Trucking Became the Frontier of Work Surveillance

Posted on November 19, 2013 by pogowasright.org

Chris Baraniuk reports:

…  Pingel, along with more than three million of his fellow truckers in the United States, is facing a regulatory upheaval which will cost his industry an estimated $2 billion and fundamentally change the way he does his job. Over the next few years, it will become mandatory, by law, for all American truckers to carry a tracking device, an electronic on-board recorder (EOBR), in their vehicle. And Pingel isn’t happy about it.

Truckers are on the forefront of workplace surveillance.

Read more on The Atlantic.

Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.

Category: U.S.Workplace

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