Is Garmin ELD still DOT complaint?

I never knew of that thing either until it was brought up in this thread. I bet most of the roadside DOT Inspection cops would not know it or would not remember that such thing there is to check for either. It is just a technicality. It is rather subtle but still something that can make them give you not a clean inspection.
I think Garmin has a glitch about it. Obviously, it does show a log entry every hour, but somehow the location field on it remains blank.

 

I agree 100% that Garmin is better suited for a solo o/o who is also a disciplined kind.
While the advantage of having all of your logs data completely private may be appealing, the possibility of losing all of it is certainly a risk - unless the backups are routinely done.

There is certainly a rather poor way of retrieving the logs for the purpose of archiving and the overall graphics of the logs, once you have them downloaded, are not the best.
Garmin does not create IFTA mileage summaries either.
Garmin does not even compare to the robustness of KeepTruckin system but
I still think I want to use it. The very thought of not feeding those ELOGs providers makes it worth it for me.
But they need to make it 100% compliant.
I don't need any demerit points on my carrier's record. The intermediate log location needs to be there.

 

UPDATE.

I tested Garmin ELD lately for recording intermittent location while in motion and it is still not doing it.
I use Motive (former Keep Truckin) which I truly wanted to dump in favor of Garmin but this Garmin's small lack of compliant data makes it a little problematic.
It should be a simple fix. The latest update was in June this year, yet this issue was not resolved.


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ON THE OTHER HAND, with MOTIVE ELD, formerly known as Keep Truckin....

Motive ALSO has quite a few bizzar programing glitches which, if you were to let it guide you blindly, could result in egregious HOS violations. For example, in a certain split sleeper configurations, you could extend your 14 hour clock for as long as 24 hours - it appears that in a certain configuration, it adds up multiple more than 2 hour breaks together.
Another thing I run into was another spilt sleeper configuration where you take 7 hour sleeper break and the next break 2 hour off Duty - but not with the purpose to satisfy the split sleeper rule yet, and after some driving yet one more break of more then 3 hours with the purpose of satisfying the requirement, it will only see the first 2 hour break and the 2nd 3 hour break will be ignored. Only after you change that first 2 hour break to on duty, it will be able to see the 3 hour break.

The funny thing about it is that their customer service act like they know it better than you, and they rather don't acknowledge any faults. They say they are trained well in FMCSA rules and if you bring up an issue for them to correct it, they often dismiss it saying that FMCSA wants it this way.
For instance, their rep told me that since my first 2 hour break was not satisfying the sleeper split, even though there was another break of 3 hours which should have satisfied it, I still needed to take one more 7 or 8 hour break in the sleeper, before being able to move.
Yeah right!

It does not matter what ELD shows or not, you still have to know how the HOS rules work. Delegating the duty of knowing them to a programmed ELD, does not absolve you of your responsibility of potential violations, even if your ELD prompted you into committing them.