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Ezlogz ELD app adds blockchain functionality to secure ELD data
Smartphone- and tablet-based electronic logging device provider Ezlogz has added Ethereum blockchain functionality to its app, the company says, which allows owner-operators to securely and transparently handle certain transactions via the app and ensures tamper-free ELD data, the company says.
March 23, 2018
Congress passes spending bill exempting livestock haulers from ELDs until October
Both chambers of Congress on Thursday passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that allows livestock haulers to run without electronic logging devices through the end of September. The bill has now been sent to the White House for President Trump’s signature, who has threatened to veto the bill.
March 23, 2018
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As hard enforcement of ELD mandate looms, FMCSA details return-to-duty procedure
In two weeks, truckers cited for ELD non-compliance will be placed out of service for 10 hours. Here’s FMCSA’s expected return-to-duty protocol. The agency says since December 18, only four percent of inspections have yielded an ELD infraction.
March 15, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Group seeks ELD compliance waiver on short-term rental trucks through end of year
TRALA says its 90-day waiver isn’t sufficient to address the ELD issues that have arisen with short-term rentals. The group says when fleets rent trucks to meet short-term demands, the ELD platform a fleet uses is often times different from the ELD platform in a rental truck.
March 14, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Livestock, ag haulers now have until June to comply with ELD mandate
Truckers hauling agricultural products and livestock have received further reprieve from compliance with the U.S. DOT’s electronic logging device. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Tuesday that such haulers will have until June 18 to adopt an ELD. They can continue to run on paper logs in the meantime.
March 13, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD or Me to host Joe Arpaio at event
In a further bid to get Donald Trump’s attention to anti-ELD mandate sentiment, the ELD or Me group and its still-under-construction TruckerNation.org website and grassroots org will host U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio, recently pardoned after being convicted of criminal contempt of court, at a March 31 event in Nashville, Tenn.
March 12, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: What’s been your biggest issue with ELD equipment?
If you’re among the numerous owner-operators who’ve been forced into transitioning to e-logs in recent times, what’s been the biggest issue you’ve experienced with your provider/device, if any?
March 5, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
OOIDA asks House committee to hold hearing on ELD mandate
Continuing in its so-far-unfruitful appeal to lawmakers, courts and regulators to reevaluate the federal electronic logging device mandate, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has asked the leaders of the House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to hold a hearing on its concerns surrounding ELD implementation.
March 2, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Use DataQs to contest 395.8(a) violations written for not having an ELD prior to April 1
If you incurred a 395.8(a) prior to April 1 simply for not having an ELD record and you were keeping paper logs, challenge it through the FMCSA DataQs process to remove it from carrier records.
February 21, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Several states consider measures to block ELD mandate enforcement
The bills mostly cite concerns of small business truckers as the reasons to repeal the mandate or suspend its enforcement, as well as the potential for the mandate to drive up prices of goods for consumers. Legislators in South Dakota, Missouri, Tennessee and Idaho have introduced resolutions taking aim at the mandate.
February 20, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Not so calm before the ELD storm
Results of the ELD “soft enforcement” period have proved less than gentle for some owner-operators. There’s also evidence of other unresolved issues as the gate opens April 1 for issuing out-of-service orders.
February 20, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Magellan e-log operable on iOS devices
The BYOD (bring-your-own-device), $10-monthly variant of the longtime GPS provider Magellan’s electronic logging device is now available for iOS-powered devices like the iPhone and iPad.
February 20, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Electrical contractors seek ELD exemption
The group states the operation of commercial vehicles by the line workers that would be covered under the exemption “is so limited that the ELD requirement is triggered infrequently.”
February 14, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Fleets running PeopleNet ELDs could see brief expansion of ELD grandfather clause
The waiver request, filed by Old Dominion on behalf of all carriers running PeopleNet systems, stems from technical issues in updates to PeopleNet’s e-logging software. While PeopleNet’s hardware is compliant with the mandate, Old Dominion says PeopleNet’s December 2017 software update, intended to bring its AOBRD software up to an ELD-compliant spec, did not integrate with PeopleNet’s fleet management software.
February 5, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD mandate enforcement, by state
Updating shorter lists that ran in January, this map shows states that have confirmed their ELD-mandate enforcement intentions ahead of April 1, whether they will not be writing citations or leaving it up to the individual inspector.
February 2, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Some states aren’t enforcing the ELD mandate yet simply because they can’t
Some states won’t be writing citations or tickets for non compliance with the ELD mandate because, legally, they can’t.
February 1, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD mandate meets reality
Increasingly, mandated ELDs are highlighting inadequacies of the hours of service rule. But “rules are rules,” note watchers. Regarding the wiggle room that drivers enjoyed with paper logs, there is no quick tweaking of hours today in the cards that would restore that unofficial flexibility.
January 31, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Truckers sound off in favor of OOIDA’s ELD exemption request
The exemption, if granted, would apply to small businesses (those with up to $27.5 million a year in revenue) who have no at-fault crashes on their record and who have a “Satisfactory” or “Conditional” safety rating. The comment period closes Thursday, Feb. 1, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.
January 29, 2018
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