With a few exceptions, ELDs are now found in almost every semi-truck on the road, performing the integral job of keeping track of drivers’ hours of service.
During his time inspecting trucks while working for the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Bureau, Daniel Vega, Reliance Partners’ director of safety, regularly witnessed issues with ELDs — including user error — when the ELD mandate first went into effect.
“When they first started the transition from paper logs to ELDs, there were a lot of...
Over the past 20 and even 10 years, there has been a massive shift in the way the transportation industry has utilized technology both in and out of the truck.
For evidence, one doesn’t need to look too much further than CJ Karman’s story. Karman is the founder and CEO of Ezlogz, but he put in years behind the wheel during a time when technology was used very differently than in 2023.
“When I started in the industry as a driver in 2007, we didn’t use navigation systems like today. We had bills of...
Hours-of-service violations are fairly easy to detect on a driver’s log. After all, ELDs are designed to keep track of drivers’ hours and will flag instances when they exceeded their allotted driving time.
However, just because the ELD system did not detect an HOS violation doesn’t mean it’s not there, concealed by log falsification.
The issue of log falsification isn’t new. It was prevalent both in the days of paper logs and still today in the ELD era. What has changed is the way drivers falsify...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-carriers-can-identify-log-falsification
ELD mandate interview with Rachel Premack
Rachel Premack, editorial director at FreightWaves, was interviewed Tuesday about her article on the impact of the ELD mandate five years later. The mandate, which regulators started enforcing on April 1, 2018, requires all drivers who record their hours of service and records-of-duty statuses (RODS) to use an electronic logging device approved by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
This requirement heavily impacted...
Up until December, motor carriers’ Compliance, Safety and Accountability (CSA) scores weren’t impacted by a common hours-of-service violation: A driver not being able to transfer logs to a law enforcement officer during roadside inspections.
But now, the once zero-point violation could cost carriers at least three points and potentially more.
“This is pretty significant because what happens here is not only can we get hit with that one violation, but that could lead to several other violations,...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/eld-transfer-violation-could-cause-snowball-effect-on-csa-scores
La Patrulla de Carreteras de California ha abierto un periodo de comentarios sobre una normativa que obligaría a los transportadores intraestatales de California a equiparse con ELDs, con una fecha prevista de entrada en servicio de la norma a principios de 2024.
A diferencia de otras acciones reguladoras en las que el Estado Dorado se adelanta a otras partes del país en la aplicación de las normas sobre seguridad y medio ambiente, el estado va con retraso en esta, según el sargento Dave Kelly...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has required full industry compliance with the ELD mandate since December 2019, so it’s reasonable to ask, is the device making the trucking industry safer?
While there is as yet no government-approved study providing definitive answers, Ronnie Brown III, who drives for Waterloo, Iowa-based Gray Transportation, says no.
“ELD and hours of service as they are set make drivers such as myself drive tired at times without the ability to stop for a nap...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/are-elds-making-the-trucking-industry-safer
In May 2020, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration changed the hours-of-service rules that govern the workdays of the nation’s truck drivers.
“The Department of Transportation and the Trump administration listened directly to the concerns of truckers seeking rules that are safer and have more flexibility — and we have acted,” said Jim Mullen, who was the acting administrator for FMCSA at the time. “These updated hours-of-service rules are based on the thousands of comments we received...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-calark-leveraged-tech-to-benefit-from-short-haul-eld-exemption
TruckerCloud has launched its Instant Carrier Onboarding feature to support its real-time visibility software platform.
Through its new onboarding service, users can link to FMCSA records to verify carriers are active and then add them to their networks knowing that TruckerCloud’s API integrations with ELD providers will be able to track that carrier’s location.
Carriers can now share their location data via their ELD, eliminating the need to use a phone application or to create a custom...
Have you heard about the looming 3G sunset? This upcoming transition, which will largely take place in early 2022, has the potential to dramatically disrupt electronic logging device (ELD) communications for hundreds of thousands of devices. You can avoid being left without a functional device by talking with your ELD provider now.
This situation has come about because the 5G, or fifth generation, communications technology being used by an increasing number of mobile devices needs more spectrum...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/will-your-eld-be-obsolete-in-2022