Beginning in December, a new rule by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would require all over-the-road freight carriers to use electronic logging equipment in trucks. The new electronic ...

The trucking industry is gearing up for a major overhaul come the end of the year, when drivers will cease logging their hours on the road with pencil and paper and usher in a new era of electronic ...

Though many fleets still seem to be wary of them, electronic automated driver logs may gain in popularity as the government prepares to implement new hours-of-service (HOS) rules next year. “We ...

In advance of the latest estimated electronic-logs mandate release date from DOT — tomorrow, Oct. 30, with enforcement expected two years after publication, barring challenges — the makers of the ...

Executives of two fleets that have implemented electronic logging devices (ELDs) are finding that adopting the technology voluntarily is benefitting their operations by boosting the productivity of ...

PeopleNet’s eDriver Logs, released in early 2003, have been adopted by about 70 percent of its private fleet customers. In January 2004, Sinclair Oil equipped its fleet with onboard computers. In July ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin.'s new electronic logging device (ELD) mandate might be the only regulation most businesses will see with real opportunity to save companies money. The rule ...

Mandatory electronic logs have been a long time coming. A broad range of issues dogged the 15-year effort to draft a rule, including concerns about tampering, driver harassment, expense, and how ...

The Load Logistics company was the first provider of an electronic logging device solution to appear on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s online device registry, which went live on Feb ...

The agency first embarked on electronic logging device proposals in 1994, but the statutory requirement regarding coercion took effect last October. That new law stipulates regulations must exit to ...

I’m going back in time this new year. I finished my last ever log book at the end of December and now a little box of electronic magic will be drawing my lines for me, much the same as the tachograph ...

Electronic logs are taking fuzzy math out of trucking. Federal and state officials have given truckers until December to install electronic monitors that track their time on the road. The new devices ...