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Electronic Logging Devices

Will ELD mandate hold under Trump presidency?

Though Republicans will control the House, the Senate and the presidency starting January 21, regulatory relief may still be hard to come by, analysts say.

November 10, 2016

Business

Spot market demand tilting toward a stronger environment for carriers in 2017

FTR analyst and COO Jonathan Starks feels truckers’ demand position in the spot market will improve well into 2017, particularly if movement toward electronic logging devices picks up. As in any improving-demand situation, rates will follow up.

November 2, 2016

Overdrive Radio

‘Keep fighting’: One reader’s reaction to the 7th circuit’s ELD decision

In this Overdrive Radio ‘mailbag’ series podcast, more than one trucker strikes a defiant yet hopeful tone in response to yesterday’s Halloween decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the FMCSA’s ELD mandate final rule.

November 1, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

OOIDA considers further legal challenge to ELD mandate

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, which filed the lawsuit in March, said it is disappointed, but looking ahead to continue challenging the rule.

November 1, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

PIT Group to offer independent ELD testing, verification

The independent testing will follow the latest version of the ELD Test Plan and Procedures issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

October 24, 2016

Business

Foley partners with KeepTruckin for e-logs

The Foley company, a provider of compliance services for the transportation industry, has partnered with California-based KeepTruckin to bring together “the key competencies of two industry leaders in transportation compliance,” Foley CEO Joel Sitak says. “With our compliance expertise and their technology, we’re now able to provide our customers with some of the most robust, affordable […]

September 20, 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

‘You don’t need to outrun the bear’: NASTC head Dave Owen’s case to small fleets for e-logs

NASTC’s Dave Owen urges small fleets to use computer-assisted logs, “before they make you turn it into an ELD” by syncing with the engine, to do what they’re designed to do as a “spellcheck for logs”: solve the problem of form-and-manner mistakes represented in safety scores and stats.

August 30, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Prediction: Rates will jump with ELD transition

“We’re going to have a truck shortage when this ELD rule gets put into effect,” said ATBS’ Todd Amen said during his Partners in Business GATS presentation. “Essentially it’s like taking 200,000 to 300,000 trucks off the road.” Here’s how much he sees rates jumping.

August 29, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs: Owner-operators have some decisions to make

Considerations in just when and how to move to ELDs were in the foreground Thursday at GATS. More may find themselves obligated to make a change, even if OOIDA’s ELD lawsuit is successful, in the end, as more shippers/brokers require ELD use.

August 26, 2016

Business

Why does Gorilla Safety have a ’97 Lamborghini at the center of its GATS booth?

The ELD and management platform provider may hope it illustrates a desired “fresh approach” to the potential for tech to assume more of the burden of what is becoming ever more of a paper-pushing, record-keeping-intensive business — trucking.

August 25, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

KeepTruckin ELD now on FMCSA’s registry

Since the KeepTruckin logbook app initially launched three years ago, followed by a low-cost ELD in October 2015, the company’s undertaken “a full-on effort in both hardware and software development focused on user experience” and with an eye toward compliance with the ELD mandate.

August 10, 2016