Heavy Duty Trucking, February 2018
HDT FEBRUARY 2018 34 WWW TRUCKINGINFO COM hen your fleet transitioned to electronic logging devices or automatic on board recording devices were you ready Training at a minimum should have included Hours of service limits and exceptions Operation of your electronic logging system and New auditing and supporting documents procedures If you took the last minute approach to implementing your devices and training you may be scrambling If you were well prepared congratulations Since enforcement of the ELD mandate started in mid December we are seeing four recurring themes Drivers are not sure if they have a grandfathered automatic on board recording device AOBRD or ELD in the truck and enforcement isnt certain either due to the variety of devices now in operation ELD related citations are being issued in several states for AOBRDs even though drivers were compliant with Section 39515 which is the AOBRD regulation Carriers that chose vendors with insufficient levels of customer support are feeling the pain in the form of frustrated drivers and a potential loss of equipment productivity Drivers are running out of hours due to delays at customers traffic and major accidents and or are not getting credited with a full break because of starting on duty time just a few minutes too soon Well take a closer look at each of these below The next steps for carriers that werent properly prepared for the transition are critical The start date for full enforcement is fast approaching Effective April 1 drivers will be placed out of service and Compliance Safety Accountability CSA points will be assessed for ELD related violations Know the requirements of the device in the truck 1 This may sound basic but drivers must be certain of which device they are using AOBRD or ELD and understand the requirements for the respective device If you or the vendor didnt provide adequate instruction on the actual device in the vehicle this can result in miscommunication with enforcement which is already happening The primary differences between AOBRDs and ELDs at the roadside are shown in the table on page 36 Theres confusion among both drivers and enforcement about ELDs vs grandfathered AOBRDs Watch for incorrect citations due to misunderstandings of ELDs and AOBRDs 2 There are reports of drivers with AOBRDs being cited but not fined for ELD related violations The violations have been primarily for failure to transfer data when in fact AOBRDs are not required to transfer data they only must display or print the required hours of service information If your driver was incorrectly cited the citation should be contested via the DataQs process even though there is no CSA point impact By Mark Schedler J J Keller Dealing with electronic logging 4 takeaways so far SAFETY COMPLIANCE W PHOTO J J KELLER
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