8 days a month OTR with paper logs?

$200 a month for an ELD? Per truck? That seems extraordinarily high. We pay $300 per year for one truck. Fleets pay much less.

 

Days which are 24 hours yes. But if you drive 2 hours in your 24 hour home time zone. That is considered 1 day. IF you drive 2 hours in 9 different 24 hour days. The 9th day requires the use of an ELD. That would only be 18 hours of driving.

Your not allowed to drive fractured (example) 8 hour periods in 24 different days equaling 192 hours driving. Your exemption would run out after the first 8-24 hour days. Based on your home time zone.
My eld cost $20.00 subscription per month. The equipment I think was around $800.00. A lot more expensive than the paper logs. That is for sure.
A lot less than $1,500 per year for my 1 truck.

 

Trucks are all within 5 years. It’s not $1000 for one. It’s all 5 + &2500 every quarter. I actually got my answer from a local DOT weigh stop yesterday after I’d ordered the the ELDs. “Write a declaration showing the drive time of the routes and that you will never go over the 8 days/month, get it notarized and send it to FMCSA. And make sure all the guys are very well aware that a truck is just stuck if it is going cross the 8 day threshold, so put it in storage”

 

each motive ELD is $150. And then $250/quarter for Me. But I got my answer and don’t need the ELDs, so will return all but 1

 

You keep saying 8 days a month, but it’s 8 days out of 30. It doesn’t reset on the first of the month.

If you just ran the ELD you’d have your time clock for the short haul exemption and you could do an IFTA report with one click.

 

I appreciate it. I went to the local DOT

weigh station where I know the guys. He told me to send a copy of the state contract showing that no trucks will ever be out over 8 days. Make a declaration under oath, have it notarized and send it to the the FMCSA. So I won’t need the ordered ELDs afterall. I appreciate your thinking. People saying “if you have a fleet just pay the fees like the rest of us do”. Every penny counts, don’t waste. That’s how I can have fleet. Thank you.

 

I once worked for a guy where every penny counts. He was notorious for not fixing anything.

 

Man I thought I was paying to much for Motive. $900 a year and that includes a dash cam recorded into the cloud and IFTA.

 

If you’re running on the short haul exemption what are you using for a time card for the drivers? Could the FMCSA have a problem with that and not really so much you not running ELD’s? Also do your trucks start and end at the same location every day?

 

If you run your own business and every penny doesn’t count, you won’t be in business long