In the past, truck drivers employed the use of spiral books to log their hours on the road as well as non-driving hours of service (HOS). This manual method of
Have you been keeping up with the recent changes in the trucking industry? As of December 16, 2019, AOBRDs are no longer compliant with current mandates. Instead of AOBRDs, a
Years before the publishing of the electronic logging device (ELD) final rule in 2015 (also known as the ELD mandate), U. S. software companies were already developing and marketing high-tech solutions
An automatic on-board recording device (AOBRD) is a hardware solution that connects to a truck’s engine via the engine control module port. It automatically records hours-of-service (HOS) data. The AOBRD
Ever since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s electronic logging device mandate went into effect, drivers and fleet managers have struggled to figure out which device is best. There are
The electronic logging device mandate requires commercial truckers and carriers such as bus drivers to use an approved, registered ELD in their vehicles. These devices rely on GPS and other
Personal conveyance rules are what allows your driver, or you, an owner-operator, to move a commercial motor vehicle outside of the federally mandated hours of service.
In June 2018, the Federal
