ELD rec. for a small fleet in leu of Highway's new rule?

I agree, we should be getting compensated for sharing such sensitive data. If we don't give them access to it, they have to purchase it from survey companies. I remember when we still had Progressive insurance (hope no one still does) they used to offer a discount for integrating your ELD for that data. And even then, that discount is laughable compared to what they'd spend on that data from a marketing company.

I am all for telling brokers they got us f-ed up forcing ELD integration, but want to know how others in the spot freight market feel and act on this. We have a small fleet, and though we have stable local routes, it's hard to establish cadence and contracts with brokers if you don't have a lot of capacity. SO the spot market brokers are our best resource at times.

 

Okay, so RMIS now has the painful login safekey, and Highway are the ones who are imposing the ELD integration.

Regardless of who owns who, brokers are now starting to ask us to re-set up through Highway and it is impossible to complete without the ELD integration. Some brokers are able to override that, some will not due to their policies. UTS for example removed that requirement for us, but Flock Freight and Ryder refused and said it's company's policy and helps them "establish trust".

If you contact someone are Ryder and ask them to get you set up you'll see what I mean. Even though we already once were set up with them, once the new Highway rule came in, they are making everyone do it again.