Fleet Advantage Fleet Safety quick overview of the ELD rule, which is intended to help create a safer work environment for drivers and make it easier, faster to accurately track, manage and share Records Of Duty Status (RODS) data.

1. ELD Overview

3. Electronic Logging Device (ELD)
The ELD rule is intended to help create a safer work
environment for drivers and make it easier, faster to accurately
track, manage and share Records Of Duty Status (RODS) data.
“Since 1938, complex on-duty/off-duty logs for trucks were
made with pencil and paper, virtually impossible to verify,”
stated US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
FMCSA states:
• Estimated annual net benefit of more than $1B
– Reducing paperwork
– Increase efficiency of roadside law enforcement personnel in reviewing
the driver records
• Annually, should help:
– Save 26 lives
– Prevent 562 injuries
– Prevent 1,844 crashes involving CMVs

4. Electronic Logging Device (ELD)
ELD Rulemaking establishes:
• Minimum performance and design standards
for hours-of-service (HOS) electronic logging
devices (ELDs)
• Requirements for the mandatory use of these
devices by drivers currently required to
prepare HOS record of duty status (RODS)
• Requirements concerning HOS supporting
documents for audits and compliance
• Measures to address concerns about
harassment resulting from the mandatory
use of ELDs

5. ELD Mandate- Timing
• ELD Rule was published December 11, 2015
• Compliance date is 2 years after ELD Rule was published
(December 16, 2017)
• Existing Automatic On-board Recording Devices (AOBRDs)
are Grandfathered for 2 years after compliance date
– AOBRDs must be upgraded or replaced with ELDs within
4 years of publication of the final rule (December 16,
2019)
• Short Haul Drivers (100 air-mile drivers) are exempt
– May use paper logs up to 8 days in any 30 day period
– Any Short Haul Driver that uses a paper log for more than 8 days in a
30 day period must install & use an ELD

6. ELD Technical Requirements
• ELD must collect these Data elements
including:
– Date and time
– Location
– Driver logged in
– Engine hours and vehicle mileage
– Vehicle identification, including trailer number
– Shipment commodity information
– Etc
• Engine data, speed, & distance must be
captured by ELD

7. ELD Benefits for data collection
ELDs provide the platform for additional safety
technologies in the form of data, such as:
– Onboard event recording to monitor driving
habits
– In-cab training
– Speed monitoring
– Lane departure notifications
– Theft prevention of equipment
– GPS for better routing
– Etc….

8. ELD Driver Interaction- Fixed Mounted
Portable ELDs must be fixed mounted during
vehicle operation

9. Roadside Inspection Process
• Must be capable of producing Graph Grid at
Roadside
• One step process for Data Transfer
• It is required that RODS be shared in one of two
ways at roadside (choice of the driver or motor
carrier):
– Printout (not all ELDs provide)
– Screen display must be visible to enforcement
at a reasonable distance
• Acceptance of data via fax, email or other method
of transmission is at the discretion of the inspector

10. Supporting Documents: General
• Retain maximum of 8 documents per 24-hour duty
day, such as: toll/fuel receipts, bill of lading, etc
• If more than 8 documents are submitted per day,
must retain first and last document of day known as
“book-ending”
• Must be retained for 6 months
• Must be submitted within 13 days
• Must be able to be matched to RODS
• Cannot be destroyed, defaced, or altered
• Driver must make supporting documents in his/her
possession available to authorized Federal, State,
or local official upon request