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Channel 19

The ‘Brexit muppet’ playing role in warning EU truckers; Redux: ‘The drones are coming!’…

The Port of Rotterdam’s blue-monster “Brexit muppet” and its PR mission among truckers there. Also: How long before DOT actually puts drone bears in the air? Package-deliver pilot program, at least, is under way.

October 21, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs’ final shift: How poor customer service can cause noncompliance

60 days out from the Dec. 17. AOBRD-to-ELD transition deadline, the latest in this series explores issues of customer service, in part driving some owner-operators’ and fleets’ provider decisions as the adoption of ELD technology proceeds.

October 17, 2019

Custom Rigs

Ruben Carrion’s recently custom-restored 2000 Peterbilt 379

No, it’s not an e-log exempt unit. “I checked with three different dealers,” owner-operator Ruben Carrion says, determining nonetheless to do a custom-restore of the unit he took about three months off for early in 2018. Catch a video walk-around and more of Carrion’s long trucking history since immigrating from Panama as a youngster.

October 17, 2019

Hours of Service

Stress relief the hours proposal stands to deliver

NASTC’s David Owen on the hours of service proposal: “What the unnecessary ELD mandate has required is a closer look at the HOS and relief from the odious stress and pressures created by the current rule. I feel if the ‘advocates’ were true advocates for safer highways, they would see and appreciate this.”

October 11, 2019

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

Goodbye, AOBRD: Shifting loyalties, yard moves and other challenges

Considering options with any ELD provider when making an upgrade from AOBRD technology can involve much more than just the basic differences between regulatory requirements of AOBRDs and ELDs — many devices come with a host of ancillary functions. Also: More on yard moves, edits and other new challenges.

September 23, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Goodbye, AOBRD: ELDs’ final shift

90 days out from the ELD mandate’s final Dec. 17 deadline, many fleets and one-truck owner-operators with authority are delaying the transition from AOBRD-spec technology. ELD providers are hopeful for new customers among the small percentages of truckers switching providers during the transition.

September 17, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

Hours edits: Drivers in full control with ELDs

Office edits to a log, unlike with many AOBRD systems, will go to the driver for final approval under the ELD spec. Survey results show some carriers and drivers clearly appreciate the ability with many AOBRDs to bypass any driver-approval step in the log-edit chain.

August 21, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

The AOBRD-to-ELD shift: Data/edits and visibility at roadside

With AOBRDs, edits made in the back office as a general rule don’t present to the roadside officer. Under the ELD specification, however, data transmittal at roadside includes those edits. It also includes detailed records of the truck’s GPS positions, engine on-off records, engine hours and the like.

August 15, 2019

Voices

As industry groups laud FMCSA’s hours proposal, truckers offer mixed reactions

The proposal was met with quick praise from trade groups like the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association. However, reaction among Overdrive readers has been split, with some welcoming the proposed changes and others dismissing them.

August 14, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

The mandate’s last roundup: The AOBRD-to-ELD shift

The final major deadline in implementing the electronic logging device mandate isn’t causing quite the stir as did the mandate’s initial effective date in 2017, yet for those grandfathered in to continue using AOBRDs, their impending sunset on Dec. 17 means adjusting to a device with a more rigidly detailed set of specifications that require some operational changes.

August 13, 2019

Channel 19

Clarity on the difference beween an AOBRD and ‘electronic logging software’

An AOBRD, in many ways, is akin to an ELD — tethered in some way to the truck’s movement itself, so that, in motion, the record is not alterable. Most anymore accomplish that through an ECM link just like an ELD, and in some cases have much of the same functionality. ‘Electronic logging software,’ however…

July 26, 2019