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Electronic Logging Devices: Page 11
Electronic Logging Devices
New ELD option for hotshots, mid-duty haulers
Blue Ink Technology has worked hard to develop the technology to meet the ELD mandate standards. Check out their latest option for hotshots, mid-duty haulers.
May 9, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Logging duty status and making edits
Though ELDs have automated many traditional trucking log book practices, truckers are still involved in logging duty status and making edits on their ELDs.
May 7, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
How the two basic types of ELDs operate
There are two basic types of electronic logging devices: dedicated units and smartphone/tablet-based apps. Here’s a look at how they operate, and which may be a better fit for your operation.
May 4, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Choosing an ELD for your operation
If you’re an independent owner-operator with only one truck, you’re likely to gravitate to a baseline-compliance electronic logging device without a lot of the bells and whistles that are available in fleet-management-focused systems.
May 2, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
KeepTruckin’s ELD buyout program
The KeepTruckin ELD provider has launched what it’s calling the “Shifting Gears” program to offer an account credit to offset some of the cost to users who switch from another ELD provider to KeepTruckin. It’s open to any-size fleet using any ELD provider.
May 1, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Many choices, some at low cost, for meeting mandate
Since the mandate saw its first compliance deadline date, new players have emerged that sell hardware, and offer ELD software for existing devices, some with no monthly fee. Most devices, however, take the opposite approach to pricing. Here’s a breakdown of the myriad of ELD providers on the market.
April 30, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Fireworks haulers seek ELD exemption for Independence Day period
If granted the exemption, APA members that already hold the 14-hour HOS exemption would be able to continue using paper logs instead of ELDs. Approximately 51 of APA’s 250-plus member companies hold the exemption.
April 23, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD Products
CONTINENTAL VDO ROADLOG VDO RoadLog has a built-in thermal printer that provides an instant hard copy that resembles a traditional paper logbook grid for an inspection officer to review. A paper printout eliminates technical issues involving transferring log data that otherwise might lead to drivers handing over their personal cell phones to an officer or […]
April 12, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Factory-fit telematics work with ELD partners
Mack Trucks and Telogis are offering a free 30-day trial of Mack Fleet Management Services with Telogis Fleet. As with Volvo, Telogis has a connectivity agreement with Mack, allowing the telematics service provider to use data from Mack’s factory-installed telematics device to deliver on a variety of management applications, including electronic logs.  Bill Frerichs […]
April 12, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD bells and whistles
From built-in dashcams to scanners and transportation management software (TMS) system integration capabilities, electronic logging devices do more, often a lot more, than merely provide hours of service functionality. ISE Fleet Services’ eFleetSuite ELD, for example, can be scaled to add features on the Android system that underlies the dedicated unit. Owner-operators and fleets “can […]
April 12, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Dealing with violations beyond your control
What will happen in situations where your electronic logging device documents an unavoidable violation? This could be driving beyond limits while looking for a parking spot in a congested area or moving from a parking place during an off-duty period when forced to by local law enforcement. State and federal law enforcement officials urge drivers […]
April 12, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD headaches
Entertainment-niche team owner-operators Nick and Kim Holley had some use of electronic logging devices in their past when their current leasing carrier dropped Omnitracs’ XRS ELD setup on them late last year in advance of the ELD mandate’s Dec. 18 deadline. Their XRS unit is of the BYOD (“bring your own device”) type, paired with […]
April 12, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Fleet requests ELD waiver for Department of Energy loads
According to the notice, in order to haul these loads, electronic tracking of shipments must be disabled “in order to limit identification of the physical location of the shipment.”
April 4, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ZED Connect sees data products beyond logging via its ELD
In addition to electronic logging, Cummins’ ZED Connect plans to add IFTA reporting (within the coming weeks), as well as the existing Cummins Connective Diagnostic.
April 4, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Truckers note business as usual as ELD mandate’s out-of-service enforcement date arrives
The first day of so-called “hard enforcement” of the ELD mandate came and went with little fanfare, coinciding in an interesting quirk of the calendar with both April Fool’s Day and Easter Sunday, the day of the week itself one where truck-enforcement activity is characteristically light.
April 3, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Toward pacifying brokers’ POD expectations with an ELD system
Eagle Express owner Leander Richmond’s Omnitracs onboard dedicated-type ELDs have delivered his eight-truck operation a capability that could at least help solve a particular problem — increasingly “ridiculous” proof-of-delivery expectations among brokerages.
March 30, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD headaches: Solving the dropped bluetooth connection issue
Based on Overdrive polling, drivers’ most common problem with ELDs is dropped connections between a BYOD (“bring your own device,” typically a phone or tablet) and the device’s ECM plugin portion.
March 29, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD supplier KeepTruckin scores $50M investment for product build-up, support network
KeepTruckin, one of the more popular ELD providers among owner-operators, says it expects a surge of activations of its system this weekend, as the April 1 hard enforcement date of the U.S. DOT’s electronic logging device mandate descends.
March 28, 2018
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