EOBR/ELD and Mobile Apps

I've been using BigRoad for a bit, and it's really turning out to be an excellent app. I just found out today that the company I'm leased to accepts it in lieu of mailing in paper logs, huge plus. The only caveat is that as of this point BigRoad doesn't talk to the ECM, so it's just a GPS based ELD rather than an EOBR.

 

it enables more tattle tale features.

keep trucking is free, i beleive.

 

I also use bigRoads free version been using it over a year only thing I see any problems with is some DOT wants it printed...but I'm using the phone app so I send it to my printer and print it off the phone.

 

If an app could talk to the ECM, it would simply be able to determine starts and stops more precisely than a GPS-based app could (aside from forwarding ECM data, which for most logging purposes winds up being a waste. Your log does not need to know your coolant temp, nor what setting your jakes are on, etc. It's unnecessary data unless the thing is functioning like a flight data recorder).

 

it isn't hooked to the ecm it is not a eld.

apps like big road, eclipse and ddl are just log book programs , the requirements are that the previous day has to be printed out at the start of the new day.

you can be written up if they aren't printed, and you have to have the capability of printing the current day.

however, in the times I have been checked the officer only wanted to see the laptop, I had the printed ones ready, but they didn't want to see them.