Elogs for Mexicans and Canadians

Just musing here. Both Mexican and Canadian drivers have to follow our HOS regulations when here. If those regulations specify an ELOG device, are Canada and Mexico going to adopt exactly the same required devices at the same time as the US? If they don't, how are they going to program the device for the prior 7 days record?
The drivers in question probably wouldn't know when they would be dispatched to the US, so no record of duty status would be in the machine.

Or are they going to give them an exemption and allow them to continue to use paper logs for the 7 days prior, effectively neutralizing the reason for ELOG's. Would that be cause for legal objections from say the OOIDA or the National Association of Small Trucking Companies?
Haven't read anything about it, so just some speculation going on here...

 

Companies that are using elogs now are not the problem.
One scenario: Smith Trucking in London On takes occasional loads to US. Has the elog, but isn't recording or using device in Canada where it is not required. Takes load, crosses border switches machine on, but no 7 day record. Or is he going to operate it at a perceived disadvantage while in Canada.
Do you think Mexican drivers are going to have an elog recording while in Mexico, when they don't even have driver records down there?
Don't know how the 80% of the industry not using elogs now are going to square with this stuff.

 

The 80% number is from the ATA. And it was industry wide, not just ATA members. It is that number that they want to change so their members(large companies)are no longer at a perceived disadvantage. The regulations published don't allow paper logs unless the unit is not operating, then only temporarily until it is repaired. These machines are extremely reliable, using paper logs will surely invite much scrutiny. "The dog ate my homework" excuse.
I think the elog requirement for Mexican trucks was vacated by the courts in 2010 at the same time as the elog requirement for "bad" carriers in the US because if the harassment issue.