Fleet managers and industry leaders may be justified in their trepidation over the federal government’s new ELD mandate, which requires commercial vehicles to be equipped with electronic logging devices. With more than 800 pages and years in the making, the new regulations are intended to make roads safer, fleets more accountable and the industry more…
Change is coming to the commercial trucking industry. Top executives and fleet managers have seen the writing on the wall for some time. The federal government instituted new regulations that it hopes will produce safer roads, more equitable working conditions for truck drivers and streamline record keeping. However, industry leaders are finding aspects of the…
The tide of increasingly advanced technology permeating our lifestyles seems to continue to rise, recently extending its flow into the hardy, no-nonsense world of trucking and commercial transportation. Late last year the federal government put in place new requirements mandating all commercial trucks be equipped with an electronic logging device by December 2017. The premise…
The purpose of the federal government’s mandate requiring installation of electronic logging devices in all commercial trucks within two years was to make highways safer, drivers’ lives easier and the flow of commercial data simpler and quicker. The ELD mandate would usher in a world of technological marvel where fleet managers would no longer waste…
