These 6 States Adopted Essential Traffic Safety Laws

These 6 States Adopted Essential Traffic Safety Laws

California, Delaware, Louisiana, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and the District of Columbia achieved the best ratings in the “2018 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws,” which grades states on the adoption of 16 fundamental traffic safety laws.  The...
70 Answers to Top ELD Questions

70 Answers to Top ELD Questions

Chapter 1: ELD BASICS The electronic logging device mandate, effective on Dec. 18, requires most carriers and drivers to convert from using paper logs or logging software to a registered ELD if they do not have an automatic on-board recording device in use. And those...
How Secure is Your ELD?

How Secure is Your ELD?

Ever since the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration opened up its self-certification registration system for mandatory electronic logging devices, there have been a number of new-entrant companies offering ELDs – but how confident can you be that those devices...
FMCSA Publishes ELD Waiver for Rental Trucks

FMCSA Publishes ELD Waiver for Rental Trucks

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published in the Federal Register the waiver the Truck Renting and Leasing Association requested for short-term rental trucks. This 90-day waiver from the electronic logging device mandate runs from Jan. 19, 2018, until...
Fleet Management 2.0

Fleet Management 2.0

Data is driving fleet decisions more than ever. Whether it’s big data or small data, fleet management is becoming less of an art every day and more of a science. The largest fleet suppliers (vehicle manufacturers, fleet management companies, and telematics providers)...
10 Telematics Trends in 2018 and Beyond

10 Telematics Trends in 2018 and Beyond

Telematics technology is evolving rapidly. The days when fleet managers were limited to “dots on a map” and reports that provided only rough overviews — or worse, complex sets of data no one could hope to interpret — are long gone. Today’s systems...