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Electronic Logging Devices

Baseline compliance ELD from ISE Fleet Services

ISE’s eFleetSuite ruggedized Android tablet paired with a connection to the engine’s electronic control module is an e-log for those without much need to “go above and beyond” in functionality.

December 14, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: Are you in the market for a pre-2000 truck to avoid ELDs?

Whether the answer is yes or no or you already run a 1999 or older truck, weigh in here on your approach to the significant exemption for pre-2000 model year trucks under FMCSA’s ELD mandate, whose compliance date remains more than a year off.

November 15, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

Trucking attorney: Court appears likely to side with FMCSA in ELD court challenge

“The [three-judge] panel was very suspect of the arguments that OOIDA was making and seemed to be much more in favor of the attorneys of the agency,” said transportation attorney Tim Wiseman of the Sept. 13-held oral arguments made in the ELD court challenge.

September 14, 2016

Overdrive Radio

One owner-operator’s evolution through continual education: A run with Gary Buchs

From the road with Landstar-leased owner-operator Gary Buchs: This podcast, recorded just prior to the July 4 holiday, ranged across Buchs’ business evolution as an owner-operator throughout much of the last decade and a half.

August 4, 2016

Channel 19

E-log transition epilogue: Wes Memphis answers your questions

After Wes Memphis’ final piece is his multipart narrative of the first couple of months following his fleet’s transition to e-logs, a few questions came in specific to his operation. In this epilogue to his dispatches, Memphis takes a moment to answer a couple of them.

June 18, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

FMCSA gets two extra weeks to issue response to ELD court challenge

FMCSA must now issue its response by June 15. The plaintiffs in the case, which includes the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and truckers Mark Elrod and Richard Pingel, under the new schedule now have until June 29 to file a court response to the agency’s brief.

June 1, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

FleetUp ELD’s self-certification review completed

FleetUp has completed a review with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for the ELD mandate, the company says.

June 1, 2016

Channel 19

E-log transition, week 4: Wes Memphis gets a pay raise, pain and a little more speed in time for a well-needed vacation

Wes Memphis again contemplates packing it in, then: “I decided to just go see the doctor when I got home, and try to make the best of it. Because, like a lot of the old boys out here, this is really all I’ve got.”

May 20, 2016

Channel 19

E-log transition, week 3: Wes Memphis looks back

“I had gone from Sonny Pruitt to just another downtrodden drone on the digital grid.” –Wes Memphis in his week 3 installment as the No. 1 driver in his company’s transition to e-logs. Nothing, however, is so simple …

May 7, 2016

Channel 19

Wes Memphis hits a snag with e-logs, missing a load

“Week two of e-logs is in the books” for Wes Memphis, and it came with one big snag when a load he couldn’t complete on time without running of hours fell through his wheels…

May 1, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

OOIDA petitions federal court to block ELD mandate, says it intends to fight rule ‘with everything we have’

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a petition with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals asking it to review the agency’s coming electronic logging device mandate, unveiled last week and set to take effect in late 2017.

December 15, 2015

Overdrive Extra

The new cost of e-log compliance and FMCSA’s denial of small business exemption

Following a comment dust-up over the real costs of compliance of an ELD mandate, the agency relaxed certain portions of required device spec’s in the mandate’s ultimate version. But it also blocked attempts at exempting small trucking companies from compliance.

December 11, 2015