Can I buy and activate an aobrd?

you need to add the driver, then activate by the link you will receive in email. After that connect the AOBRD and do Bluetooth pairing. No need to call Gorilla

 

Has anyone heard of BridgeHaul AOBRD? It’s only $12/month.

 

yes you can get aobrd and if it was activated before Dec.18 2017 you can use it in aobrd mode teal end of 2019.i know there is many of them.

 

o,ok so if anyone need 1,let me know

 

Mind citing the law, or even guidance that allows this? Bet you are not actually being legal....
Here's guidance provong you wrong.
What is a “grandfathered” automatic onboard recording device (AOBRD)?
A “grandfathered” AOBRD is a device that a motor carrier installed and required its drivers to use before the electronic logging device (ELD) rule compliance date of December 18, 2017. The device must meet the requirements of 49 CFR 395.15. A motor carrier may continue to use grandfathered AOBRDs no later than December 16, 2019. After that, the motor carrier and its drivers must use ELDs. See Section 395.15 (a) of the ELD final rule.

Note the word installed. .
There is this too.
According to § 395.8, if a motor carrier “installs and requires a driver to use an AOBRD…before December 18, 2017 they may continue to use the AOBRD until December 16, 2019.” Does this mean I can move an AOBRD from one vehicle to another after December 18, 2017?
If your operation uses AOBRDs before December 18, 2017, and you *replace vehicles in your fleet you can install an AOBRD that was used in the previous CMV. However, you may not purchase and install a new AOBRD in a vehicle after December 18, 2017.

Again, note the word vehicle. One can move an AOBR to another vehicle in the fleet, one cannot move one between fleets, or even to a truck in the fleet that did not have an AOBR.

 

In mid March the FMCSA amended the rule, allowing carriers who had purchased/installed AOBRD before the mandate to add trucks to their fleet and purchase additional AOBRD capable devices.

ill refer you to this article
FMCSA changes ELD rule to allow for new installs of AOBRDs

 

Thanks for the reply. Got an official source? I'm not finding anything on FMCSA's website, and to be honest I don't believe random articles from 3rd party websites. Way too often they are wrong. You will note there is no references on the CCJ website. So I'll ask again. Are there an official notice of this change. Until it's official it's best to not try and put new AOBR's in....
BTW here is there news page, no mention of it... News
Here is their exemption page, no mention of it. Exemptions

 

here is the question addressed on the FSCMA site
May a motor carrier that installed and required its drivers to use an AOBRD before December 18 2017
and here is the page the question comes from
| Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
both from the FMCSA website.

i could find no 'official' notice of this. i know it came from a prominent company that runs 2 separate portals for ELD and AOBRD and their customers were complain.

 

This is correct and the FMCSA FAQ is an official statement regarding this matter.

I do not plan on transitioning our drivers from AOBRD to ELD for a couple more months and have installed devices in a handful of trucks since the March 9th statement from FMCSA. They come from the factory running ELD software and I am able to contact the manufacturer to downgrade them back into an AOBRD.

Having a mixed fleet is an issue when drivers have to hop in different trucks and one may be running an ELD while the other runs an AOBRD.