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Overdrive Radio

Mailbag: Answering a few ELD mandate questions, and more trucking views

In this Channel 19 edition of Overdrive Radio podcast edition a few ELD-mandate-related questions answered, and a round-up of ongoing commentary coming in on the podcast line…

December 17, 2015

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: What will be your response to mandated ELDs?

7 in 10 readers noted they’d consider either early retirement or another line of work before they’d run with an electronic log in March 2014, when the recently released rule was proposed. What’s your outlook today?

December 16, 2015

Overdrive Radio

ELD mandate represents a ‘piece of freedom’ under threat, say readers

Audio: Three views of the ELD mandate show the strong opposition felt among many — meantime, more debate on the pre-2000 model year exception and just who benefits most, by the numbers.

December 15, 2015

Business

Don’t freak out, man

If ELDs are to be mandated, more work needs to be done: “Maybe we shouldn’t freak out, but we should definitely make our concerns loud and public during this two year transition period.”

December 13, 2015

Business

Doing the ELD dance

“There are rumors of a last-minute amendment in the rule that says if you can prove you have six toes on your right foot, you don’t have to run a log book at all.” .. More on the ELD mandate and its exceptions.

December 11, 2015

Channel 19

ELD mandate’s pre-2000 model year exception: One owner-operator’s morning celebration, more voices raised

Independent Howard Salmon — owner of a 1999 Kenworth W900 — and his reaction to news of the pre-2000 model year exception in the ELD mandate — more voices on the rule, too.

December 10, 2015

Electronic Logging Devices

E-log mandate set to take effect Dec. 2017, rule set for DOT publication

The rule requires drivers currently required to keep paper logs to use ELDs, with a few exceptions. It also spells out hardware requirements for the devices, protections against driver harassment and more.

December 10, 2015

Business

Omnitracs MCP to include Drivewyze bypass service

More than 360,000 Omnitracs-equipped trucks in North America will be able to access and benefit from the weigh station bypass services powered by Drivewyze.

December 2, 2015

Voices

Return safety to drivers’ control: Fix the 14-hour rule

Texas-based Gary Carlisle weighs in on what Overdrive readers have named among the most-needed hours revisions. Also: it’s bankruptcies that will drive up rates, not wide ELD use itself.

November 13, 2015

Electronic Logging Devices

‘We’ll get through this e-log implementation’ — projecting carrier-shipper relationships after the ELD mandate

"We'll get through this e-logs implementation," says compliance consultant Jeff Davis -- better rates, efficiency, productivity for small fleets await.

November 11, 2015

Electronic Logging Devices

DAT jumps into the e-log market with multifunction platform

Growing integration between DAT’s core freight matching and location-based services and the new DAT InView set of compliance, tracking and vehicle-diagnostic services will drive 2016 development.

November 6, 2015

Electronic Logging Devices

In advance of e-logs mandate, KeepTruckin officially launches its ELD

The KeepTruckin ELD, the company says, is expected to be compliant with the impending mandate for e-log use at a monthly $20 per truck for service.

October 29, 2015