My questions to current ELD users.

It is my understanding they all can be configured by the carrier admin however they want them to be configured [within limits] even if it may go against "published rules". How/when they "commit to disk" is all different for each device. Just because a device may indicate it's in Drive status does not necessarily mean this can not be rolled back if certain actions are takes before certain other limits are reached.

As for drive time, I suspect the admin can do anything they choose to however the ECM logs miles actually in movement. If the ECM says you drove 750 miles in a day but the drive time is somehow edited down to 8 hours for that day, something is not going to look right in an audit.

 

from what I understand even as an admin they will not be able to edit drive time.

 

you could use yard move or pc to do the move also at least i can on the vdo roadlog without using drive time.

 

For ELD's (NOT aobr/eobr's) mandated the be in a truck in December.
1. That's written in the regs. No way around it.
2. An admin can edit anything, including drive time. There is, however, a record kept of the original times that cannot be edited. An audit will show all edits and need to be explained to the auditor.
Now the thing is, even then the office cannot make drive time go away. It happened, so it must be accounted for. Either by explaining it via annotation or by unassiging it, and even then it must be explained.
3. Can't help with that one, sorry.

Here is a FAQ for ELD's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - ELD Rule

 

Wonder if you can use the ferry fumction?. Qualcom i used with swift had this feature.

 

It depends if you are under dispatch or under load then you cannot use pc otherwise you can.

 

The ELD's cannot use GPS to determine if the truck has moved. So a function like that would be useless for the new regs.