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Electronic Logging Devices

POLL: What’s your level of concern over hacking/security risks and ELDs?

This poll probes the extent of worry over the outside potential for a truck’s computer-system infiltration through an ECM plug-in device, like an ELD. Reports and device makers suggest risk is minimal without physical infiltration, though malicious programmers abound …

August 8, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: Step deck owner’s journey into mobile information tech, more

How to build an effective organizational system for your smartphone apps — and just what apps are showing plenty utility for step-deck hauler Joey Slaughter. In this Overdrive Radio edition, also, the operator’s thoughts on ELDs (he’s still on paper), broker relationships and more.

August 4, 2017

Channel 19

The cost of pre-2000 ELD regulatory indecision: One winner, and potential losers, among owner-ops

In the Trump era, when governing by Tweet is something of a norm, “regulating by FAQ” might stand to gain in prominence — with scarcely five months remaining prior to the December ELD deadline, recent significant change to the pre-2000 exemption well-illustrates the issues for this owner-operator.

August 1, 2017

Business

Representative Babin gets it

“Since we have the golden unicorn of a Representative in Texas who has really been inside a truck, used one to make a living, and knows what the HOS is, we should definitely make an effort to let him know how very much we appreciate him.” Support his bill by calling your own rep, Wendy urges.

July 21, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

Presenting logs with ELDs at roadside

Running with an e-logs device is one thing. Communicating e-log data to an inspector is quite another. With five months to go, states’ data transfer plans vary widely, and an ambitious federal program remains untested.

July 18, 2017

Channel 19

Voices on ELDs, hours, pay as grassroots efforts begin to bear fruit

As news out of Congress shows some of the results of anti-ELD mandate forces speaking out, this voices round-up brings commentary under Max Heine’s July “Pulse” column on what one reader dubbed “the real problem” at the root of ELD issues, hours. Not everyone agreed, some seeing rates/money as the more bedrock issue in all the back-and-forth over ELDs and hours.

July 18, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

BigRoad DashLink ELD price drops for owner-ops

In the wake of the company’s March sale to Fleet Complete company, BigRoad has reduced the price of its DashLink electronic logging device to $19.50 a month for owner-operators.

July 13, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Making the e-log switch: The evolution of small fleet Old Time Express

“I know a lot of people, and especially a lot of drivers, would like to cut my head off when I say this …” — that’s Old Time’s Mark White in preamble to some perhaps underappreciated e-log lessons he delivers toward the end of this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast. File under: things people might not want to hear.

July 7, 2017

Overdrive Extra

‘The real problem’ isn’t ELDs

Now that it appears the ELD mandate is about to amplify the shortcomings of the hours of service rule, it’s time to address the real problem, not its surrogate.

June 30, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

POLL update: What’s your most likely response to the ELD mandate?

With the principle legal challenge (OOIDA’s court battle) to the ELD mandate at an end, assuming the end-of-year enforcement deadline remains, what’s your current plan for dealing with the mandate? Weigh in in this poll.

June 29, 2017

Business

Notes on having notes

“I firmly believe enough interest can be generated to get the ELD law delayed until the hours of service rules can be amended, but it’s going to require sticking to the point and being very specific about what the point is, and it’s going to require numbers of people to direct their concerns to the correct places.”

June 28, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

J.J. Keller Encompass ELD self-certified

The J.J. Keller compliance services company announced the placement of both dedicated and BYOD (“bring your own device”) versions of its Encompass electronic logging device system for Android devices and its own Compliance Tablet on the FMCSA’s ELD registry.

June 19, 2017