An IFTA report that has the ELOG accuracy we need? Sounds great! How do we get it?

Because a ELog doesn't track fuel purchases.

Nope, it doesn't. For that, you need a system that tracks expenses.

Ideally, a system that takes the receipts from the fuel pump and enters them by scanning, not by typing. (Wouldn't that sweet?) Then the computer system will combine the fuel expenses - per state - and the miles per state in a single IFTA report. That's what we need.

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When we talk about Legal, we're talking about a compliant ELD. There are many E-logs out there to choose from - the question is which one is the best purchase.

ELDs (or E--logs) started as a way to track freight and drivers. Then the FMCSA created a requirement that all interstate truckers needed to use an ELD that was compliant - that it would track the Hours of Service that a driver was on the road.

The goal was to reduce the number of accidents on the road by exhausted drivers. As time has gone on, those HOS records have become only one part of their role for legal e-logs.

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But those systems are expensive - which is why the big companies could afford them but smaller companies couldn't. Did an owner operator need a report to tell them where the load was - when it was directly behind them? Of course not. So why pay for that?

Then the ELD producers added some extra features. More extra bells and whistles cost more money - which raised the prices for the truckers. And to guarantee the income, contract prices went up too. Owner operators need a no contract ELD.

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You have to be able to use a product. It's that simple. Getting an ELD that's complicated is not required. Using an E-Log that makes you spend too much time defaulting back to paper records is... Ok, I'm gonna say it. Stupid. Why would you depend on an ELECTRONIC logbook device that doesn't work?

Then there's the bells and whistles.

If you're an owner operator and you drive your own rig - you don't need location tracking. You can do that for yourself.

Big logistics companies want extra features that are above and beyond compliance.

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Did you see the recent report about a trucker who ignored their HOS restrictions and ended up 3 killing people? The company told the trucker to ignore their HOS limits and found a way to cheat the system.

Hours of service rules were imposed on the trucking industry because truckers are motivated to drive unsafely to get more deliveries done more quickly. They drive longer than is safe. Some take drugs to stay awake. In the end, the laws of physics apply to trucking accidents: the people in the smaller car are more likely to be injured or hurt in an accident with a truck because trucks are bigger.

It's accidents like this one - where the ELog was doctored and the HOS ignored that lead to the government talking about more ELD requirements.

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Sometimes, delivery details change once the load is on the road. Then the broker or the dispatcher has to reach the driver with the updated information. And if they get the truck driver while on the road, maybe they think they'll remember the details but can't write it down. Or the wrong email address gets the updated information.

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Local businesses may not think about ELDs. It's in-state!

Or they think that it's just a little over the state line. No big deal, right?

Then, when they have to consider an ELD, they're often seeing the high-end products on the front of the Google search page. Do they need the expensive ELDs?

No, they don't. They need a basic ELD that will provide the basics, not the expensive bells and whistles that long-distance truck drivers need. It's just that simple. Keep it simple.

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The Split Sleeper Berth exception to the hours of service restrictions for truckers is complicated. With new changes, truckers now can split their off duty and in bunk hours to manage their drive times. But it calls for strategic decision-making to use it right.

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Private fleets also need ELD systems. TruckingOffice ELD provides the data for private fleets.

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Truckers need to make a profit. That's why truckers need trucking software - to know how to run a trucking business and make it profitable.

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