The document details the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate in the United States, outlining its background, technical requirements, certification process, and audit expectations. It emphasizes the importance of ELDs in improving compliance with hours of service regulations and reducing accidents. Key aspects include the prohibition of driver harassment, the certification of ELD vendors, and specific technical standards that ELDs must meet.

1. United States Electronic
Logging Device Mandate
Presented By: Joel Beal
Managing Partner & COO, JBA Telematics
eMaint Best Practices Webinar • March 2016

2. 1. Brief Background of Electronic Logging Devices
2. The New ELD rule
3. Technical Requirements
4. The Certification Process for ELD Vendors
5. What to Expect During an Audit
The Electronic Logging Device Mandate

3. Poll Question #1
How familiar are you with the Electronic Device
Mandate?
1) Not familiar at all
2) Somewhat familiar
3) Very familiar, I work with ELDs everyday

4. The Background of Electronic Logs

5. The Background
It is more interesting than it looks……
 1987 – Frito Lay implements electronic logs
under a US DOT waiver
 1988 – US Code of Federal Regulations Section
49, 395.15. The Automatic Onboard Recording
Device, “AOBRD”.
 1994 – Transportation Authorization Act
specifies “supporting documents”
 2003 – Hours of Service NPRM proposed an
Electronic Onboard Recorder (EOBR) mandate
for some. Not included in final.

6. The Background
It is more interesting than it looks……
 2004 – Work begins on the second phase of
EOBR rulemaking, “EOBR2”
 2010 – EOBR2 Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (NPRM).
 2011 – EOBR rule vacated as a result of law
suits. The issue – driver harassment.
 2012 – MAP-21 Requires “Electronic Logging
Devices” (ELDs) for all who currently are
required to keep drivers logs

7. The Background
 MAP-21 – “Moving Ahead for Progress in the
21st Century”. Passed by a bi-partisan
Congress and signed into law by the
President
 Deadline of October 2013 for publication
 December 16 2015 - published in the Federal
Register;
 12/16/2019: deadline for AOBRD users
 12/18/2017: deadline for paper log users

8. Why Require ELDs?
• FMCSA estimates annually:
– Avoid 1844 crashes
– Prevent 562 injuries
– Save 26 lives
• Improve HOS compliance
• Automate, to some extent, compliance audits

9. The New ELD Rule

10. And the Rule Is?
• SNPRN published February 2014
• Rule published December 16 2015
• Four areas covered in SNPRN;
1. Minimal technical standards for ELDs
2. Directs all drivers who use logs to begin using an
ELD
3. Establishes exact requirements for Supporting
Documents
4. Prohibits driver harassment. Establishes a driver
complaint process, and a carrier due process.

11. Alphabet Soup
We’re all running under the AOBRD rule in the
US – since September 30, 1988.
There never was an EOBR – it died before it
started.
The next rule is ELD.

12. Rule Timeline
Rule Published
Year 2
All Paper-Log
Drivers Comply
Year 4
All AOBRD
Drivers Comply

13. What is an ELD?
Take an existing device that automates HOS
logging – modernizes the rule and mandates use
Captures all CMV Movement
Does not allow deletion of driving time
Does not capture all drivers’ time – thus the need
for supporting documentation
Tamperproof
Give drivers more control of their logs than the
current AOBRD rule

14. Who?
• Everyone who keeps paper logs
Exceptions:
• Timecard drivers – if they do not use paper
logs for more than 8 out of any 30 day period
• Driveaway / towaway
• CMVs manufactured before 2000

15. Supporting Documents
• Up to 8 supporting documents for a 24 hour
period
• Submit within 8 days
• Must produce at roadside if requested
• Carrier must retain for 6 months

16. What is a supporting document?
• BOL
• Dispatch and Trip Reports
• Expense Receipts
• Mobile Communications
• Payroll

17. What does a supporting document contain?
• Driver name
• Date
• Time
• Location

18. Technical Requirements

19. Technical Requirements
Connected to ECM
1. Engine Power Status
2. Distance
3. Motion Status
4. Engine Hours

20. Technical Requirements
GPS Location Recording
1. Every 60 minutes
2. At engine on/off
3. At beginning/end of yard moves
4. At beginning/end of personal use
5. Location accuracy decreases when
used for personal conveyance or off
duty.

21. Technical Requirements
In the Cab
1. Graph/Grid Display or Printout
2. Information must be accessed
outside of cab.
3. Driver Name and ELD user name
4. Carrier name/address
5. Engine hours and distance for
each driving period
6. Malfunction and diagnostic status
7. Unassigned driver miles/time
warning
8. On Duty Not Driving when no
motion > 5 minutes, or driver has
not responded to ELD prompt in >
1 minute.
9. Mounted and secured when
moving

22. Technical Requirements
Onboard Communicating to Enforcement
Upon demand - at least two of:
1. USB
2. Web Services
3. Blue Tooth
4. Email
5. Printout

23. Technical Requirements
Log Edits
1. Drive time cannot be edited
2. Driver edits, office approves
3. Office edits, driver approves
4. All edits are tracked and original
record retained

24. Technical Requirements
Tamper Resistance
1. Self-diagnostics and reporting via
flat file
2. Reasonably resistant to
tampering
3. Original data must be unalterable
and not erasable

25. Limited Automatic Status Changes
• Drive when wheel motion is detected
• If stopped for more than 5 minutes –warn the
driver. If no response, then driver auto-
switched to On Duty Not Driving
• All other automatic duty status changes are
prohibited

26. Driver Harassment Provisions
• Mute audible alerts when in sleeper
• Personal conveyance GPS accuracy shown on
logs is 10 mile radius – instead of 1 mile radius
with other statuses
• Driver certifies any log edits
• Driver has access to all logs

27. ELD Certification

28. ELD Supplier Certification
• Create system that complies with the rule
• Onboard flat files that report on faults,
tampering, and power events
• Certification proof marked visibly on device
• FMCSA developed a certification checklist
• Electronic Logging Device Vendor Registration –
online portal within FMCSA
• Vendor provides user documentation to FMCSA
• Chance of non-compliant devices?

29. Picking a Supplier
• Use only a supplier that is certified
• Ask for documentation on testing protocols
and processes that the supplier used to self-
certify
• Make sure they fit YOUR rules – intrastate and
interstate federal exemptions/exceptions.
• Ability to audit and report on HOS without
looking at every log every day
• Don’t wait until the last day

30. Audits

31. Roadside Inspections
1. Is the ELD device compliant?
 Decal
 Drivers Handbook
2. Show me your logs…
 Electronic transfer of logs to ASPEN system
 Print out of logs
 Email logs
3. Paper logs accepted if;
 Casual driver
 Rental truck
 Device failure

32. Office Inspections
1. Same conditions will trigger an audit
2. Logs may be viewed or printed
3. May ask to see original logs where edits are
made
4. Supporting documents required
5. Six previous months plus current month in
the office
6. 13 days to get logs from truck to office
7. 7 previous days plus current day on the road

33. Why Adopt Now?
1. It’s Not the Good Old Days
2. Progressive fleets have always focused on
safety and profitability. Compliance follows.
3. Those other guys – they’ll comply at the last
minute with as little money as possible

34. Questions?
Joel Beal
Managing Partner & COO, JBA Telematics
JoelBeal@JBATelematics.com
www.JBATelematics.com