My latest elog question??

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  1. tallmon

    tallmon Medium Load Member

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    Ask your elog provider to purge your data periodically.
     
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  3. Hulld

    Hulld Road Train Member

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    Not sure how this would work with the one that I have because there is no monthly fee or much interaction with the company after purchase.
    I would guess it's like trying to delete info off the cloud on my iPad, almost impossible to do....
     
  4. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    That's why you read their retention policy before you buy.
     
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  5. tucker

    tucker Road Train Member

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    I guarantee you any Mega company driver can call their company and ask for logs from 7 months ago and they will be told that they only have the last 6 months worth and the rest were deleted.
    (Nobody knows what a cloud is, just like nobody knows what crypto currency is)
     
  6. Hulld

    Hulld Road Train Member

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    I feel like I'm in the twilight zone....
    Every maker I talked to said there software is cloud based for storage and holds the information indefinitely not just six months worth.
    This is why I posted this to begin with.
    The law says that you need to retain 6 months worth so the cloud system should automatically purge any older data but none of the systems work that way.
     
  7. Sublime

    Sublime Road Train Member

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    The system we use deletes log info past 6 months old.
     
  8. driverdriver

    driverdriver Road Train Member

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    I waited till tax time to download mine.
    The whole year was available.
     
  9. Hulld

    Hulld Road Train Member

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    I guarantee your right because the megas are not going to stand for a system that holds data that could incriminate there company or drivers weeks, months or years later.
    But I highly doubt they are useing cloud based retention for there multi million dollar loging systems.
    All I asked any of the company's I talked to is "do you have a system where I can just download from an eloger direct to my computers hard drive for storage".
    The answer was no straight across the board.
    You must download to the cloud first and then if you need to retrieve any of your data you must download it back to your computer as a file.
    I have a gps that I use to track ifta and aportionment miles and I just bring it in to the office and my wife plugs it in to her computer and it downloads directly and then prints a report.
    Why can't this be done with elogs?
     
  10. Hulld

    Hulld Road Train Member

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    What system do you use?
     
  11. Mark Kling

    Mark Kling Technology Contributor

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    Companies store Paper Logs after Scanning on servers. FMCSA requires that the company only retains 6 months prior. Anything beyond that is not required to be shown.

    Drivers must keep 7 days prior plus current. This will be stored on an Electronic Device in the truck. Will it retain more, probably, but you only have to show 7 days prior plus current.

    They cannot ask for more that what is allowed by the FMCSA.

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...vrsn=0&usg=AFQjCNF7Bxu5lQSCEKiP9RSGK2V8vS7P9g


    Part 395: Hours of Service

    Drivers must:

    Forward or submit originals of logs to the motor carrier within 13 days of their completion


    Motor carriers must:

    Retain the logs and supporting documents for 6 months from the date they receive them
    (about 6 ½ months from document date)

    Six months retention for both logs and e-log formats
     
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