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Electronic Logging Devices

Gorilla Safety offering free ELD subscription through 2019 to One20 customers

Gorilla Safety is offering One20 F-ELD users free basic subscription to its ELD service through the end of 2019, as long as drivers buy the company’s hardware.

June 4, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD companies offering deals to One20 F-ELD users in wake of shutdown

GeoSpace Labs and ELD Solutions are offering ELD discounts and services to current One20 F-ELD users after recent TruckThat buyout announcement.

May 28, 2018

Business

House committee clears bill with ELD waiver for livestock haulers, dismissal of state-mandated driver breaks

In addition to delaying ELDs for livestock and bee haulers until Sept. 2019, the bill will block state-enforced carrier paid breaks for truck drivers.

May 25, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Truckers lose in the authenticity battles and baseless accusation flinging between ATA, OOIDA

At a time when the industry seems at least in some ways to be coalescing around a few pressing issues — need for hours of service reform, a lack of parking and battered highways, to name a few — the groups only stand to hang their members out to dry by continuing to throw punches.

May 3, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

KeepTruckin’s ELD buyout program

The KeepTruckin ELD provider has launched what it’s calling the “Shifting Gears” program to offer an account credit to offset some of the cost to users who switch from another ELD provider to KeepTruckin. It’s open to any-size fleet using any ELD provider.

May 1, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Fleet requests ELD waiver for Department of Energy loads

According to the notice, in order to haul these loads, electronic tracking of shipments must be disabled “in order to limit identification of the physical location of the shipment.”

April 4, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD headaches: Solving the dropped bluetooth connection issue

Based on Overdrive polling, drivers’ most common problem with ELDs is dropped connections between a BYOD (“bring your own device,” typically a phone or tablet) and the device’s ECM plugin portion.

March 29, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Congress passes spending bill exempting livestock haulers from ELDs until October

Both chambers of Congress on Thursday passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill that allows livestock haulers to run without electronic logging devices through the end of September. The bill has now been sent to the White House for President Trump’s signature, who has threatened to veto the bill.

March 23, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Group seeks ELD compliance waiver on short-term rental trucks through end of year

TRALA says its 90-day waiver isn’t sufficient to address the ELD issues that have arisen with short-term rentals. The group says when fleets rent trucks to meet short-term demands, the ELD platform a fleet uses is often times different from the ELD platform in a rental truck.

March 14, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Magellan e-log operable on iOS devices

The BYOD (bring-your-own-device), $10-monthly variant of the longtime GPS provider Magellan’s electronic logging device is now available for iOS-powered devices like the iPhone and iPad.

February 20, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Electrical contractors seek ELD exemption

The group states the operation of commercial vehicles by the line workers that would be covered under the exemption “is so limited that the ELD requirement is triggered infrequently.”

February 14, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

Truckers sound off in favor of OOIDA’s ELD exemption request

The exemption, if granted, would apply to small businesses (those with up to $27.5 million a year in revenue) who have no at-fault crashes on their record and who have a “Satisfactory” or “Conditional” safety rating. The comment period closes Thursday, Feb. 1, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.

January 29, 2018