Roadcheck check up: Are you ready?

Joe Ohr Article Summary As cybersecurity researchers demonstrate the ability to manipulate commercial truck systems, the industry must move past easily exploitable, self-certified ELDs to protect hours-of-service regulations and keep fatigued drivers off the road....

Yevgeniy Melnik Multiple logbook fraud (double-logging) Some drivers maintain two sets of logs — one for the ELD, one for reality. Logs are edited or selectively erased to make it appear the driver was resting when they were actually driving. Brokers booking these...

Jenny Glasscock Hours-of-service violations are fairly easy to detect on a driver’s log. After all, ELDs are designed to keep track of drivers’ hours and will flag instances when they exceeded their allotted driving time. However, just because the ELD system did not...