ELD Compliance Takes Your Business to New Heights

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Agency or FMCSA modify and revise their regulations to upgrade the standard of ELDs in order to ensure the safety of truck drivers. As per the final regulation of FMCSA the deadline for ELD compliance for all fleet managers and truckers was 18th Dec 2017. This rule is known as ELD Mandate in the USA.

The installation of an ELD or Electronic Logging Device in each commercial motor vehicle (CMV) engine has been made obligatory across the USA by FMCSA with the singular motive of introducing a faster and flawless mode of tracking and recording the hours of duty statusof the commercial truck and motor vehicle drivers operating on the long haul throughout the USA. Application of the FMCSAELD Mandatenot only benefits the fleet owners but the truck drivers as well in innumerable ways. This article is aimed chalking an outlineof the ways in which an electronic onboard recordercan benefit a user.

Attributes of an electronic onboard recorder:

• A good quality electronic onboard recorder should automatically switch to driving mode as soon as the truck or commercial vehicle moves up to a set speed threshold of five miles per hour.

• Allow the driver of a commercial motor vehicle to sign in and select off-duty, not driving and on-duty or on-duty modes without the hassle of odious paperwork.

• Electronic onboard recorder assists in averting any unintentional or deliberate hours of service (HOS) breaches, and also any penalty or fine levied to the driver due to the lapse in documented logs.

• Provide information in the form of a regulated layout that can be addressed to law enforcement in particular formats i.e., in the USB, wireless web solutions or Bluetooth.

• It should automatically convert captured vehicle position in latitude/longitude coordinates into geo-location information that clearly indicates the approximate distance and direction to an identifiable location corresponding to the name of a nearby city, town, village or state.

Benefits of ELD compliance:

 Hassel free – ELD compliance ensures accurate and efficient electronic documentation for each and every motor vehicle while reducing inspection time.

 Helps in audit procedure – ELD compliance ensures the audit procedures are passed in a secure manner.

 Cost effective - With the visibility of hours of service of the drivers, the time taken for maintenance will be reduced.

 Real time tracking - The moving motor vehicle can be tracked live, with updated electronic onboard recorder, while on the move

 Controlling truck spare time – ELD compliance by fleet administration system has effectively curbed the downtimes of a vehicle by 16 to 17% and enhanced vehicle usage by 14%.

 Highly efficient – ELD compliance enables the truck drivers and owners to be warned ahead of time if any unexpected calamity is approaching, so that they are able to take all the preventive measures prior to its actually taking place.

Hope the article assists you to make an insightful choice for your business!