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Channel 19
Faulty speed sensors, ground wires, empathy on customer service issues: Readers respond to one owner-op’s ELD issue
Several readers offered a variety of fixes in comments that had helped them with problems with their ELD acting with a mind of its own, similar to what Mark Kirbyson reported a couple weeks back here on Channel 19. Others, shared here, wrote in directly.
May 7, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
How to make the transition to the ELD spec from grandfathered e-logs, or AOBRDs
The key thing for trucking companies large and small to know about the Dec. 17, 2019, last-permissible date to utilize grandfathered electronic-logging-devices-by-another-name (that’d be those AOBRDs), is that it’s not too early to start making the transition today. Explore the transition here.
April 25, 2019
Channel 19
Erroneous status-switch to on-duty driving, while parked — Mark Kirbyson’s latest ELD issue
In November Kirbyson began having an issue with the ELD in his 2007 Caterpillar-powered Peterbilt kicking him into on-duty driving status, while he was asleep in the bunk. “Have others experienced a similar issue?” he asks. How’d you solve it?
April 24, 2019
Business
BigRoad’s freight platform being extended to fleets and their dispatchers
BigRoad Freight is expanding its initial program for owner-operators using DashLink ELD data to optimize freight matching. Now, fleet dispatchers at companies on BigRoad’s logs system will be able to manage load assignments and help drivers avoid deadhead miles through the freight program.
April 24, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD maker KeepTruckin lands $150 million investment, company valued at $1B
Electronic log provider KeepTruckin, who’s prominent in the owner-operator market, announced April 23 it has received $149 million in Series D investment funding, with the company valued at $1 billion. The company says it will use the latest influx to fund new hires, invest in hardware, form new partnerships and to further its work in machine learning.
April 23, 2019
Business
Trimble’s 3G hardware-recycling partnership
Trimble customers that upgrade to new devices in 2019 and 2020 as 3G networks sunset will be able to ship their uninstalled Trimble equipment to the Cobalt company free of charge, for safe and secure disposal of the hardware, recycling any components when possible.
April 22, 2019
Hours of Service
Fireworks haulers seek hours relief during Independence Day holiday period
The American Pyrotechnics Association has submitted a petition to add four new members to its existing hours exemption during the Independence Day holiday period. A separate fireworks hauler, Extreme Logistics, has also requested an HOS exemption for its 12 drivers during the same holiday period.
April 18, 2019
Hours of Service
As Congress preps spending bills, lawmakers back another ELD waiver for livestockers
A block of 63 lawmakers in the U.S. House has penned a letter to transportation appropriation leaders asking them to allow drivers hauling livestock and bees to remain exempt from compliance with the federal electronic logging device mandate through the 2020 fiscal year — Sept. 30, 2020.
April 15, 2019
Business
KeepTruckin to leverage ELD data for freight matching, detention pressure
A new tool is on the near-term horizon for KeepTruckin users offering insights into shipper/receiver facilities, also a “Smart Load Board.” KT also has expanded a small brokerage it bought last year, putting the company in a position of competition with its ELD users, or at least those carriers’ current brokers.
April 12, 2019
Voices
Shutdown report: Participation estimated, issues raised, tactics debated as April 12 arrives
Participating truckers view any effectiveness of this shutdown as having the potential to demonstrate some unity among drivers, whose voices in regulatory and industry discussions don’t always rise to the top. At once, there’s reason to doubt that numbers are sufficient to make a statement, and others object to anarchic tactics they’ve seen.
April 12, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: Does your ELD provider provide an avenue for you to opt out of sharing location/other data with them?
Different providers take different approaches to the employment of user data for internal purposes — is it clear via policy that your ELD data is not being used internally by the provider, or does the provider at least give a clear avenue for opting out of any internal company use?
April 11, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Why pick a fight with the air? And: Downtime for the spot market 3 o’clock hustle
This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast comes as MATS continues in Louisville, with conversations with two owner-ops showing commonality between them in a willingness to be the contrarian in this loud age, on a variety of things — Chad Boblett and Henry Albert, on rates, ELDs, aerodynamics and more.
March 29, 2019
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