What the ELD mandate has taught me so far

The ELD's are not making you run faster nor forcing you to drive faster. It does mean that you "corrected' your paper logs to reflect what you needed to make it home. Now the ELD is showing you that what you have done in the past is not doable for the distance/time that you have.

It is just making your logs more legal.

 

Aye... ELD just made me change my running hours, with a heavy focus on avoiding rush hour delays in large metro areas.
On paper logs I normally started my day around 6am, on ELD's I started anywhere from 2200-0600.

 

Just don't go so far from home and you'll have hours to get home

 

One thing the TND has is Predictive Traffic. It is a long time study of different traffic patterns for cities at different times. You put in the city and the hour and it shows you the "predictive" traffic that has been shown for that city/time. I used it a lot if I was around a city that I was not sure of....

ELD's for sure will change driving habits...

 

That is your choice.. @64x11 = 704 miles, @70x11 = 770 miles., @75x11 = 825 miles..

but your fuel mileage goes down as speed increases...

are you running out of 11 or 14 first?

 

What models have that feature, Mark ?

 

I think it was pretty standard after the x20 models.,, Tablets have it.

I changed the city of origin to Boston and you can change the day or week or toggle the time. The roads will change to yellow/red depending on what is in the history.

I found this very useful to work around "traffic" if I did not know the city in question.