Well I work for a great company. Money is great hometime is great. We all know how the safety directors can go overboard with self imposed rules that go above and beyond what the requirements go. Just looking for some information to bring up during our next meeting.
Is this government or my company?
Discussion in 'ELD Forum | Questions, Answers and Reviews' started by bamanation, Dec 23, 2018.
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The ELD gets it's information from the ECM and the GPS. How, exactly, is the ELD getting steering wheel rotation information?
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"(3) An ELD's set speed threshold for determination of the in-motion state for the purpose of this section must not be configurable to greater than 5 miles per hour."roshea Thanks this. -
The problem with setting it much below 5 mph is it will false trigger more easily fromwhat others using EROAD have told me.
They stuck a booster, which looks like another ELD unit, on the far passenger side windshield today, and I'm not supposed to touch it. Still not tallying daily miles right if I run over midnight, I'm not sure about all miles on a trip done in one day. I have been stopping at midnight to get it to log a location I can see if I happen to be running then.ZVar Thanks this. -
If yours is in AOBRD mode at present, then your company can set it up to 25 MPH before it will trip it to ON-DUTY/DRIVING. Or, they can also set it to go any speed you want as long as you don't move over 2 miles for example. There is much leeway for AOBRD mode.
You say that they are going to transition to ELD mode soon (as will all companies in 2019.) The GOVERNMENT mandate states that the ELD must go into "Driving" at no more than 5 MPH. The Omnitracs device "default" setting for tripping the drive line is 5 MPH as READ BY THE SPEEDOMETER SENSOR IN YOUR ECM. If you stay UNDER 5 MPH it will not trip unless your company has requested a special software change. This is why you see trucks creeping at 3 MPH around the truck stops. I have had multiple cases where the truck's speedo sensor was out and the driver could drive all day without EVER tripping the drive line because the Omnitracs never saw 5 MPH from the ECM. We had to go back and manually edit their log to show the drive time until they got their speedo sensor replaced at the dealer.
I do not know the technical workings of other brand ELDs. However, by default, Omnitracs will not trip your duty status if you move the steering wheel all day long, just the wheels over 5 MPH if it is set to ELD mode. -
Just a point a AOBR IS A ELD...
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AOBRD and ELD are not the same thing. Better know which one you have if you get inspected.
What are the differences in specs in the 1988 AOBRD Rule and the ELD rule?
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/faq/what-...s-and-devices-using-logging-software-programs -
You do need to know because ALL of them are ELD'S.
some are compliant and some are not compliant with the ELD mandate
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