Electronic Logging Device (ELD) news and information to keep your fleet moving forward.
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…
Car and truck motorists share more than 4 million miles of U.S. roads. While not a significant increase from 1960’s 3.5 million, more than a quarter billion cars and trucks regularly travel those roads, which is 3.3 times as many as a half century ago, according to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics. While levels…
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…
