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Electronic Logging Devices
More hopes and hazards: ELD data aggregation for advocacy, predictive maintenance, other uses
Some research organizations and even ELD providers are using aggregate ELD data to advocate for regulatory change or other industry purposes. Other providers are building potentially powerful predictive tools around maintenance, both of usersâ trucks and the roads they operate on.
June 26, 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 operatorâs competitive edge.
June 24, 2019
Overdrive Extra
The disconnects of dollars for your ELD data
The emerging market of ELD data sharing involves business-to-business sharing of highly specialized data that in some cases has value on the individual level. Should you share your data? Editor Max Heine explores the question hereâŚ
June 18, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
Tracking-tech providers see new uses of ELD location data
Location data is some of the most valuable output from electronic logging devices, driving tracking services to make deals with ELD providers to allow users to opt into location-share connections with ELDs providing the tracking, with more functionality coming.
June 11, 2019
Electronic Logging Devices
Missing reins in an emerging marketplace for ELD data
Until regulations, legislation or court cases set guidelines for data privacy, âitâs kind of âwhat you sign up for is what you get,â â says Eric Witty of ELD supplier Trimble. âIf you donât read the fine print in an agreement youâre signing,â you might be giving a provider the right to freely share.
June 10, 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: âPrivacy is paramount,â but practices vary
An ELD provider thatâs committed to integrity, some industry watchers suggest, will make obvious to potential customers any secondary or outside use of their data thatâs 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
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