The goal of the ELD law was to help improve driver safety. Many truckers have been known to falsify their handwritten log books or manipulate them to allow more driving time than the Hours-of-Service (HOS) rules legally allows. As you can imagine, this creates a host of safety issues, ...
Besides that, drivers should also know the intrastate rules that apply to them. For instance, there is an exemption in Florida for intrastate truckers hauling agricultural products within a 150 air-mile radius. Theuse of ELDs for non-exempt intrastate drivers in Floridabecame mandatory from Jan....
The Department of Transportation (DOT) uses the data recorded by ELD devices on driver’srecords of duty status( RODS) to ensure that fleet owners and drivers follow road safety rules. How Do They Work? You can attach ELD devices to yourfleet management softwarefor a comprehensive solution. I...
The change that has probably resulted in the most interest is the change in rules requiring a 30-minute break after no more than eight hours of consecutive driving. This can now be satisfied by the on-duty/not driving status, rather than off-duty status. That means a driver’s “break”...
The ELD mandate rules were published in the United States on December 2015 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and compliance was expected of all drivers using paper logbooks by December 18, 2017. Drivers using Automatic Onboard Recording Devices (AOBRDs) were required to ...
with the new rules now fully in effect. Large national motor carriers were generally supportive of the new rules and therefore fully compliant well in advance of the deadline. Smaller regional and local carriers were less emphatic, with some fighting the mandate until the very end, while others...