In an unprecedented move Thursday, Nov. 12, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration placed 121 electronic logging devices in the revoked category on its ELD registry.
The revocations, plus 12 self-revocations by providers, followed reporting in Overdrive about a demonstration of a device being remotely manipulated in Illinois for federal investigators and state and local police. The demo was repeated with FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs himself outside Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, D.C., November 2.
Below see all of the devices revoked involuntarily.
In revoking the devices, FMCSA said motor carriers have up to 60 days to replace the revoked ELDs with a compliant device. The agency also advised carriers and drivers to:
- Discontinue using the revoked ELDs and revert to paper logs or logging software to record required hours of service data.
- Replace the revoked ELDs with a compliant ELD from the Registered ELDs list 60 days from November 12, or by January 11, 2027, in this case.
Motor carriers and drivers who continue to use the ELDs listed above on or after that date will be in violation of 49 CFR 395.8(a)(1) -- "No record of duty status" (effectively no logbook) and drivers will be placed out-of-service.
Communicate with your ELD providers about their potential plans to correct deficiencies -- in past, some devices have returned to the registered list after modifications.
FMCSA noted that if the ELD provider corrects all identified deficiencies for its device, FMCSA will place the ELD back on the list of registered devices and inform the industry of the update.
To ELD providers with plans to address deficiencies: contact Overdrive's editors.
[Related: FMCSA revokes 133 ELDs after Overdrive reported HOS fraud confrontation]
