Pre ELD Truck Advice

Before the elog mandate I used the Big Road logging app.. I don’t know if it even exists anymore. What ever you decide just remember you’ll have to have the capability to print them out for any inspections. I had a wireless printer in the truck that worked great.

As far as ifta miles, I get mine from my Garmin GPS. I only have experience with Garmin and it’s mostly dead on accurate with my odometer. IFTA mileage from my ELD provider (Fleet Complete/ Big Road) is absolutely inaccurate.

Whatever you do you may want to log the mileage manually for at least one quarter to compare accuracy.

 

Why?

The biggest concern is its sitting, low mileage, and use doesn't mean it won't breakdown.

 

Biggest issue will
Be with anything rubber needing to be replaced , all hoses and belts and tires and brake chambers , Probably brakes shoes too .

some wheel seals will have dried up and will leak when you start driving it .

but the mechanical stuff will have low miles and usually good maintenance unless it’s from a big city , most big city stuff is junk . City of Atlanta , has nearly half of their fire truck fleet out of service from neglect and no maintenance.

 

My garmin gps does ifta and dash cam

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but a vast majority of drivers have no idea what it takes to actually run an old truck down the road

 

Guy that taught me how to drive a truck just used a tape recorder for mileage for his paper books.

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Seemed like a great system for simpler days.