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Electronic Logging Devices

The mandate’s last roundup: The AOBRD-to-ELD shift

The final major deadline in implementing the electronic logging device mandate isn’t causing quite the stir as did the mandate’s initial effective date in 2017, yet for those grandfathered in to continue using AOBRDs, their impending sunset on Dec. 17 means adjusting to a device with a more rigidly detailed set of specifications that require some operational changes.

August 13, 2019

Channel 19

Rebooting Riteload, take two: Last no-broker board standing?

Newly re-branded Riteload (from “MyRiteload”) might well be the one of the last platforms still pursuing that “elusive holy grail” of shipper-direct, brokerless matching we once wrote about. They’ve relaunched a website, changed plenty, and hired an executive with deep trucking experience.

July 23, 2019

Business

Gorilla Safety ELD integrates tracking tech

ELD provider Gorilla Safety has integrated the Project44 tracking platform for shippers and brokers to allow Gorilla Safety’s customers to meet increasing load-tracking demand.

June 19, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

A gold rush for ELD data

As the trucking industry reckons with the value of information spewing from millions of trucks, issues of privacy, disclosure and ownership rights, including fair compensation, remain to be resolved.

June 4, 2019

Channel 19

Owner-operator Chuck Kumalaa on his decision to stay out through the holiday weekend

You’ve just found out that your electronic load confirmation with a delivery appointment for today was bunk because the business is shut down for Memorial Day. What do you do? And: Why owner-operator Chuck Kumalaa stayed out this weekend knowing in advance he wouldn’t deliver before Tuesday.

May 27, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Runaway recounted down Sandstone Mountain, and: Revisiting a quite accurate spot rate prediction pre-ELDs

Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-failure story on Sandstone Mountain in W.Va./Va. on I-64; Also: Monte Wiederhold’s quite accurate 2017 rates prediction relative to ELDs.

May 13, 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

Business

Detention, parking, app overload: Hot-button issues for owner-ops explored in the context of tech’s sometime salve

Prasad Gollapalli, the founder and CEO of Trucker Tools, joined two owner-operators Thursday at MATS — Greenmiles small fleet owner-operator Shain Ferris and owner-operator Tamara Brock — for a lively discussion of these tough issues for owner-ops.

March 29, 2019

Channel 19

From within or without? — pressure to run over hours in the wake of the ELD mandate

Drivers face increased risks in the ELD era for any hours violations — hence more pushback against pressure to violate, met with one of those “equal and opposite reactions.” Yet not everyone agrees that external pressures to violate the regs are being truly felt, as one trucker commented: “The pressure I feel from the ELD is not from management. The pressure I feel is from me, the driver.”

March 28, 2019

Channel 19

Owner-operators report mostly negative, if any, change in detention times since ELDs were mandated for most

Early detention-poll results show most readers feel that the load/unload locations they visit had either seen no change (44 percent) or actually gotten a little (18 percent) or a lot (20 percent) worse on detention since late December 2017 when the electronic logging device mandate first came into play.

March 6, 2019

Business

The expansion challenge: Getting started with solid freight relationships

While most owner-operators have considered adding a truck to their business, many never try it, and few have sustained success for years. The challenges are many, but the rewards can be substantial for the right operators with a close eye on new opportunities.

March 4, 2019

Voices

POLL: Have detention times improved since the ELD mandate came into play?

What’s been your experience at shippers and receivers since the ELD mandate came into play in late 2017? Have detention times gotten shorter, longer, stayed the same? …

February 27, 2019