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…
Following record winter storms along the Eastern seaboard and in the South, several governors have temporarily suspended hours-of-services rules to provide relief for trucking fleets. In declaring states of emergencies, governors in hard-hit states of Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia are providing waivers on the federal requirements as storm conditions rattled nearly…
Fleets should equip their trucks with electronic logging devices (ELD) to reduce driver fatigue. That’s the National Transportation Safety Board’s top recommendation for 2016. Serving as a government advisory board, the NTSB is making installation of the devices a top recommendation to improve road safety, according to the Commercial Carrier Journal. The NTSB – which…
