Driving with Qualcomm unplugged

If you've been using it for 5 years it's not an ELD. It's an AOBR. There was no ELD's 5 years ago....

 

It's definitely an ELD; that's the whole reason my employer deployed that system - and I remember hating it for the first few months. Considering what terminal I was based at and some events that were happening in my life at the time, I'm pretty sure that was Feb or March of 2015, so about 4 years ago.

 

Kinda hard to be an ELD as the requirements were not even published until Dec 16, 2015 ....

 

At the company I drove flatbed for we had Omnitracs, it was an AOBRD and the parameters were set as such (25mph or 2 miles before it kicked you to drive, etc). I lost my speedo going down hwy 12 in Idaho. Due to the nature of the road I noticed right away that I had no speedo and noted the mile marker as I was close to Lowell ID. That thing was confused and didn’t know what was going on. It was not recording vehicle movement, it simply said that it was malfunctioning and not working properly.

I started my paper log at Lowell and I called the office when I got to Kooskia ID and had phone service. She said it was showing my location changing but was not showing movement and stopped recording miles when at the time the speedo quit. I logged out and ran paper for the rest of the day and also the following 2 days until I got back to the shop and had the sensor replaced. Once I logged back in my log showed off duty at Kooskia ID the whole time and in the office nothing came up on her end showing unassigned movement because without the sensor there was no ecm info so as far as it knew the truck wasn’t moving. The only thing that was on the log grid was a red line on the drive time for about 20 minutes after the speedo stopped before I logged out.