ELD exemption

@kylefitzy @ZVar

 

A couple of things. By the time you wrote that story you could have dropped "fmcsa eld exemption engine" in google and clicked the first link.
Here is the guidance When does the pre-2000 model year exception apply? | FMCSA

Now you are both wrong, with the DOT officer smoking something and you only slightly wrong.
The exemption goes off the Engine Model Year, not the manufacturing date. There are a fair few engines that were manufactured in 1999 with an engine model year of 2000. There are also a fair few that were built in Dec 1999 with a model year of 1999....

 

All of the 6NZs were manufactured in 1999. At least that's what the guys who are selling them claim. According to what I have read, the 6NZ is a 2000 my, regardless of when it was manufactured, but guys telling me I'm wrong.

I've got a 1993 my built in 1993 in a 1994 truck, so I don't care about them being wrong.

 

Yes you are absolutely correct! There are some ELD exemptions mentioned in this trucking blog and that is one of them.

 

That blog is pretty inaccurate. The mandate date was 12/18/2017, not February 16, 2016.

The vehicle exemption is not a manufacture date of before 2000, it is an engine model year of 1999 or earlier, even if the truck was manufactured even as late as 2018, assuming it is a glider. As @ZVar and others are wont to point out, only gliders and trucks that originally came with EPA98 engines can legally have 1999 or earlier engines.

The shorthaul exemption has been changed to 150 air miles.

Drive away/ towaway exemption, the towaway exemption only applies if the towed trailer is an rv. Any other trailer is not eld exempt.

It neglects to include the 8 times in 30 days exemption. If your operations are exempt but 8 or fewer times in a rolling 30 day period your operations would not be exempt, then you will still be exempt from eld requirements. Say you deliver trucks, which is Drive away exempt, but sometimes you use the company truck and put the vehicle you are delivering on a drop frame. Now it's no longer drive away. As long as you do this fewer than 8 times in a 30 day period you will be exempt from eld

 

Thanks for the updated info! much appreciated!