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Electronic Logging Devices
Drivers stand to benefit from ELDs?
Jack Roberts, writing in CCJ, highlights âgrowing evidence that ELDs wonât be all bad for driversâ and the core of ELD opposition as of a piece with reaction to the growing âsurveillance stateââŚ
April 23, 2014
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD mandate: Independentsâ final straw?
An Overdrive survey shows between 50 and 70 percent of respondents threatening to exit the industry over the electronic-log mandate â the highest percentages are among independents/small fleets.
April 17, 2014
Electronic Logging Devices
KeepTruckin plans to offer free ELD to its pre-mandate e-logbook users
That is, should the mandate take effect. With FMCSA hoping for a 2016 compliance date, KeepTruckin says itâs developing the hardware to satisfy the ELD mandate now.
April 16, 2014
Overdrive Extra
E-logging: Whatâs trackable is going to get tracked
Even if we lived in an alternate universe where hours of service did not exist, fleets eventually would monitor driversâ locations and hours.
April 8, 2014
Voices
ELD rule public comments mixed, with renewed focus on hours rule
Among others, Mark Olsen of Clinton, Utah, echoed the overall mixed nature of the comments all told. However, he rejoined arguments in favor of the need for ELDs with a message heard increasingly â that the hours of service rules in general are the bigger problem as regards true safety.
April 4, 2014
Voices
Anti-ELD petition to White House launched; more voices on the mandate
Language of the petition, which has a goal of 100,000 signatures collected by April 18, reflects voices of opposition among many Overdrive readers, approximately 3 of every 4 according to recent polling.
March 21, 2014
Voices
ELD mandate: Readers respond
Among Overdrive readers, more than half of the respondents to a poll conducted in the weeks prior to the ELD mandateâs release showed a strong preference for another line or work or retirement over use of the devices.
March 17, 2014
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: What will you do when/if an electronic log mandate arrives?
With an electronic-log mandate rule long in the works and expected to be publish fairly soon, we want to know: Whatâs your likely course of action when itâs fully implemented?
March 6, 2014
Voices
EOBRs/ELDs are being put in the wrong place
Owner-operator S.E. McCurdy argues an alternative to the ELD/EOBR mandate in a time-card system to put the burden of accounting for driversâ time on those who would waste it.
February 19, 2014
Overdrive Extra
The pros and cons of bringing âMoneyballâ to trucking
Have any of the industryâs good intentions (longer retention, improved safety) with predictive analytics had effects that drivers would consider not so good?
February 16, 2014
Channel 19
Hopping a beverage trailer to D.C.
Follow @channel19todd on Twitter for updates from this weekâs Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting in Alexandria, Va., set to take up highway-bill priorities and CSA, among other topics.
February 10, 2014
Business
New logging app/dispatching platform seeded by Google Ventures
The new KeepTruckin smartphone app for Android and iOS and web-based dispatching application is a computer-assisted log with much other functionality besides.
December 12, 2013
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