Since December, when the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in the U.S. issued its Final Rule on Electronic Logging Devices (ELD’s) there is no doubt that carriers have been bombarded with information from a number of sources. The attached summary prepared by the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) may assist in answering some of the questions about ELDS for carriers and their drivers.
CTA’s summary simply took the final rule as published by FMCSA and picked out the components known to be of most interest to carriers and supplier members based on feedback to date from industry. This includes information on: applications and exceptions, short haul operations, supporting documents, driver harassment, location and monitoring requirements, certification of eld’s, data transfer and roadside inspection requirements, grandfathering provisions for existing hours of service recording devices, yard moves and personal conveyance, driver edits and annotations to duty status, malfunctions and data diagnostic events, and key technical specifications.
To see CTA’s ELD summary click on the PDF link: CTA Detailed Summary FMCSA Final Rule ELD
OTA members with questions concerning ELD’s can email operations&safety@ontruck.org