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Apr 1, 2016

TRUCKING INDUSTRY ELDs * USA: To Prepare for the coming ones

* Shippers also needs to change


-- A tremendous shift is coming to the trucking industry, and it’s certain to impact shippers and intermediaries nationwide. As of December 18, 2017 carriers and drivers who are using paper logs or logging software must transition to electronic logging devices (ELDs)... Think of an ELD as the black box in an airplane. They make it easier to track and manage a driver’s duty status and they synchronize with a vehicle engine to automatically record hours of service... If a shipper trusts its freight to non-asset based companies then they should ask the intermediary what it’s doing to prepare. This would involve ensuring that contract carriers are all compliant. Shippers should perform this base-level due diligence on asset-based carriers and brokers to avoid being accused of entrusting freight to a non-compliant carrier and avoid a truck being shut down by law enforcement mid-route... Shippers will benefit from the ELD mandate. Carriers should know where their trucks are down to the blade of grass—avoiding an ambiguous status of load. If the load is involved in an accident, all parties should have access to location, rate of speed, and deceleration. All parties will benefit from being able to prove arrival time, free time, detention time, and departure time, allowing carriers to be compensated fairly for lost time... Carriers who do not have ELDs will learn to embrace them prior to December 2017 while shippers will benefit from eliminating carriers who have not committed... Follow Jack Welch’s advice, “Change before you have to” ... Shippers should immediately develop an ELD strategy with respect to their carriers and brokers... 
(Photo: ELD in a truck cabin) -- Newport Beach, CAL, USA - Global Trade, by Brian Fielkow - March 31st, 2016

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