What's to keep me from buying 2 ELDs for my truck?

Old terminology: EOBR
New terminology: ELD

So what the heck is there, assuming I can afford to buy more than one device, to keep me from having 2 ELDs and using one for a few days and then unplug and hide it and use another for a few days or even change 'em up every day?





And just for the record here's my 2 cents about ELDs, I feel that if these are foisted upon us they should be 100% automatic. I should not have to touch the thing EVER to change duty status or whatever else you guys do with these things. After all aren't they sold to us as making things easier?

 

I have mechanical fueled CAT. No ECM!

ELD not in use would be disabled/insulated from GPS/cell signals either by metal shroud or internal battery removal.
I never used a ELD so I'm just guessing and asking questions here.

There's got to be a way to enter previous off duty time when you first turn on the machine, right?

Or if there's no info just fill out a paper log that says you laid over for x many days in x town USA to make DOT happy because ELD unit was out of service. You're supposed to have paper log as back up right?

I will learn the ins and out of these contraptions and do what I want when I want for my own safety and health and make the record look like DOT wants it to to make them happy. And I'm sure other drivers are already doing this.

 

Well safety is my first concern and bitterly clinging to my freedom is my second which should put at ease most snooping trolls looking for a gotcha on this board.

I am an inconvenient anomaly in the DOT's convenient statistics used to justify 24 hour surveillance in the name of safety. I never ever crashed in 28 years and since fuel is over $1/gal. and the 55 mph states have jacked up the limits I don't even get speeding tickets anymore.