- ELD (electronic logging device)
- An ELD, or electronic logging device, is hardware connected to a truck's engine that records the driver's duty status automatically instead of the driver filling in a paper log.
The device reads the engine rather than asking the driver. Whether the truck is moving, and for how long, comes off the vehicle itself, so the duty status is written as the day happens rather than reconstructed at the end of it.
The rule requires a carrier operating commercial motor vehicles to install one and have its drivers use it to record duty status. Our hours-of-service page states that with the regulation linked, along with the driving limits the device is recording against.
The exception people reach for is the short-haul one, and for the device rule that is the wrong test. The exception written into the logging rule itself covers a driver who completes a record of duty status on not more than 8 days within any 30-day period, the two driveaway-towaway cases, and a vehicle built before model year 2000. Those are separate provisions, and a carrier reasoning from the short-haul one can reach the wrong answer about its own trucks.
An ELD is not a dispatch system and does not try to be. It knows how long the truck has been driven; it does not know what the load pays, who the broker is, or whether the invoice went out.
We do not sell one. Tezify reads the hours from the device already fitted to the truck, so what a driver has left sits next to the load being planned rather than in a separate portal.
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