Just had a disturbing thought about electronic logging devices the other day.

I think he has a point.
Trucking companies know exactly where every one of their trucks are at all times and know what they're hauling and where their heading. BOL serial numbers are also on the ELD's.
If trucking companies have all this information, then it can be hacked.

 

They could of hacked computer info before eld also.
Lol

 

Too many paranoid people now days.

 

Yup, the eld companies are compiling the data and selling it.....

The companies own the data I believe not the user

 

4, 2019 · Owner-operators voluntarily submit their ELD data, usually in concert with their ELD supplier, via a one-time file transfer.

 

They gotta have a routing code like a bank to retrieve data

 

Why eld? Why not just hack the carriers computers to get BOL’s or even the brokers? Faster way I’d say plus they will know exactly what goes where from where.

 

Insurers have approached Trimble (formerly PeopleNet), one of the nation’s largest ELD providers, about acquiring aggregate and individualized ELD data, says Eric Witty, vice president of products. But the company will provide such data only if customers sign a data-sharing agreement.

 

Rest assured any adversaries already know what they want to know about manufacturing and the shipments thereof. No doubt human assets have been updating that information for years. For the most part it is just general information, mostly useless, that can be gleaned from things like company annual reports and visual observation. However, anything really critical will be out of that sphere; eg., not obvious, not tracked, etc.

Another factor that makes this somewhat implausible is the fact that while some hardware is likely sourced from foreign sources, it's just as likely to go into a smart toaster as an ELD; i.e., an ELD isn't that special or specific. I would expect most of the software is written locally.

There is some truth to your premise though...

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