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Answering hours questions, as some ELDs falsely flag errors when new rule options used
In this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, we answer truckers' hours of service questions and dive into reported issues of ELD snafus under the new regs.
October 8, 2020
Electronic Logging Devices
AOBRD-to-ELD: Tech providers on data handling, hours changes, improving core and ancillary functionality
“Nobody’s in a race to be regulated,” noted Pedigree Technologies CEO Wade Wilson, speaking with three other ELD providers in August on the subject of the AOBRD-to-ELD shift. While there’s certainly general antipathy among truckers to the mandate, a variety of business cases can be made for telematics technology.
October 10, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
More ELD data hopes and hazards: Load matching efficiency improvements
A variety of players, including some ELD providers, are executing plans to use ELD hours data as a way to help put load offers in front of carriers that have drivers who not only are close to the load but also have sufficient on-duty hours.
June 25, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
Hopes and hazards in using ELD data: Detention reduction
With wells of data at their fingertips, ELD providers are beefing up offerings to their customers, with potential to reduce wasted time and improve load choices. However, the privacy tradeoffs can cut into an operator’s competitive edge.
June 24, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
Data sharing practices among leading providers of ELDs to owner-operators
Overdrive attempted to survey 14 ELD providers, representing those used by significant percentages of readers. As shown in this chart below of results from nine of them, none of the providers that answered questions were engaged in direct sales of individual customer data, but many do share aggregated, anonymized data with third parties and employ data internally.
June 6, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD data handling: ‘Privacy is paramount,’ but practices vary
An ELD provider that’s committed to integrity, some industry watchers suggest, will make obvious to potential customers any secondary or outside use of their data that’s granted through the service agreement. Likewise, the company would give customers a conspicuously simple way to opt out of unnecessary data sharing.
June 5, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
A gold rush for ELD data
As the trucking industry reckons with the value of information spewing from millions of trucks, issues of privacy, disclosure and ownership rights, including fair compensation, remain to be resolved.
June 4, 2019
Channel 19
Erroneous status-switch to on-duty driving, while parked — Mark Kirbyson’s latest ELD issue
In November Kirbyson began having an issue with the ELD in his 2007 Caterpillar-powered Peterbilt kicking him into on-duty driving status, while he was asleep in the bunk. “Have others experienced a similar issue?” he asks. How’d you solve it?
April 24, 2019
Business
BigRoad’s freight platform being extended to fleets and their dispatchers
BigRoad Freight is expanding its initial program for owner-operators using DashLink ELD data to optimize freight matching. Now, fleet dispatchers at companies on BigRoad’s logs system will be able to manage load assignments and help drivers avoid deadhead miles through the freight program.
April 24, 2019
Business
Some pain amidst the gains — CSA’s Data Trail after the e-log shift
Carriers with one to four trucks, whose hours violations as a share of all violations has been falling for years, claimed a larger percentage for the first four months of this year: This and other trends are detailed in Overdrive’s first CSA’s Data Trail update after the turn to ELDs.
August 16, 2018
Electronic Logging Devices
Surge of new ELD users tests vendors’ systems
Though most prominent electronic logging device manufacturers reported no disruptions in service as the ELD mandate took effect Monday, more than one ELD supplier was reported to have temporary service outages most of the day due to the wave of new users coming online.
December 19, 2017
Business
BigRoad launches in-app load matching platform
The ELD/digital logbook provider has built its on-demand freight-matching service in partnership with brokers, load boards, and digital freight platforms, bringing together loads in a simple package, the company says,
November 28, 2017
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