Editable ELD

Why not get two ELD tablets? When one runs out of hours, turn it off. Turn the other one on and bam you have a fresh 14 hours? DOT can't verify where you've been! They barely know how to read them now as it is...

 

I get what you are saying there, but the law allows you to move the truck. Any suit would have been thrown out. He was no more likely to be sued moving the truck then, as any other time. Ignorance and fear doesn't excuse costing me a grand on a tow truck. I would of explained the personal conveyance ruling to him, showing how it is perfectly legal and if he still insisted, id do what i said. Have it towed to their secure lot and he would be looking for a job. Heck is likely id even subscribe to dac just to poor a negative remark in there. I can get pretty spiteful when someone deliberately costs me a thousand dollars.

 

Gliders are not registered by the year of the engine. They are registered by the model year of the truck. We bought 10 KW gliders in 2014, they all have pre-emission Detroits, and they are all registered as 2014s.

 

Yep. My 2013 FL glider is registered as a 2013. Motor has nothing to do with it. I am pretty sure that all glider kits now require an electronic motor, even if pre-emission. They are not providing wire harnesses for mechanical motors that I know of. So they are going to have some form of ability to hook up ELD and eventually the speed limiter thing whenever that comes about.

 

You don't need a wiring harness for a mechanical engine. That would be very easy to wire in. Now making that engine wheel with the regs is an entirely different story. Gps tracking should work for the elog mandate, but speed limiter would be difficult.

 

But many of the gliders being made have electronics that do require some form of ECM. Check with the glider OEM's and see what they say, but I am pretty confident that they require at least an engine that is ECM controlled. It is unrealistic for any of us to speculate on it. The only way to know is check with the OEM's.

 

The dash might all be wired through the ecm, but then you just order the truck with no gauge package and install your own mechanical gauges. You aren't buying a Volvo or prostar glider that has the wipers and windows tied in to a matter control. Well i guess you could but why would you want that kind of abuse?

 

Like I stated, check with OEM's. If you can get something like this thru them, then let us know the OEM and truck model they will do this with. I stay in close contact with Harrison Freightliner, the outfit that did my glider and is the second largest glider builder in the U.S., and there is no indication that they would do what you are suggesting. That doesn't make it so, again, the only way to confirm that this could be done is check with the OEM and find out if it is the case. As before, we are all just speculating and that means little to nothing. Speculations do not count as fact.