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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 5: The perils of advice in trucking

Rolling along with Wes Memphis in his e-log transition, Memphis logs in a little early, precipitating a violation: “Now, to me, the most important thing about being a truck driver is knowing how to read between the lines” of any advice …

May 31, 2016

Channel 19

How ELDs could be the new radar guns

If the SFD process as proposed becomes regulation, and the ELD mandate isn’t struck down by the federal courts or otherwise derailed, on-site auditors may garner an extra-effective tool in their arsenal for declaring a carrier Unfit on the basis of hours, moving violations.

May 26, 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

Electronic Logging Devices

Gorilla Safety’s ELD, potential for usage-based insurance

The Gorilla Safety ELD entered the market for such products last month, and is one of the current three such devices listed on FMCSA’s ELD registry.

May 10, 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

Electronic Logging Devices

OOIDA expects ruling on ELD mandate by year’s end

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association says it expects the courts to rule by year’s end on whether or not to uphold a DOT rule to require truckers to use electronic logging devices to track hours of service.

May 4, 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

FleetComplete’s ELD builds on tracking-system base

The Toronto-based Fleet Complete’s mobile app-based ELD (with engine-connected hardware) comes at $7 for a monthly subscription price, but it requires the base $29-monthly tracking system as well.

April 26, 2016

Channel 19

Household goods hauling: Challenges explored with moving veteran Fred Metzler

Fred Metzler stresses what he sees as unique household hauling challenges — and practices of some companies that are cutting into owner-operators’ incomes in the space significantly. Also: Wes Memphis says good-bye to his paper logs in week one of an electronic transition.

April 23, 2016

Channel 19

Why ‘automatic’ may or may not mean ‘automatic’ when it comes to ELDs

In OOIDA’s case against the ELD mandate, it argues FMCSA has not conformed to Congressional statute requiring ELDs because it didn’t require devices that ‘automatically’ record all hours. Did Congress really mean what it said?

April 15, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Audio mailbag: Broker freight transaction transparency rears its head amid rate doldrums

What exactly are those with the biggest stake in any freight movement getting today separated by middlemen? Not much, at too high a rate, one caller among others to the Overdrive Radio podcast line contends.

April 13, 2016