electronic logging device

You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

by Adrian Hon  · 14 Sep 2022  · 371pp  · 107,141 words

to meet a deadline after taking on one too many loads. Starting from the 1980s, the US government began exploring the possibility of moving to electronic logging devices (ELDs) that would replace drivers’ paper logbooks with an automated, unforgeable system, in order to improve compliance with hours of service and thus increase road

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Administration, United States Department of Transportation, updated October 31, 2017, www.fmcsa.dot.gov/hours-service/elds/eld-brochure-english-version. 66. “Registered ELDs,” ELD | Electronic Logging Devices, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, United States Department of Transportation, accessed November 28, 2021, https://eld.fmcsa.dot.gov/List. 67. “Research,” Owner-Operator Independent

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, www.vice.com/en/article/xgxx54/amazon-drivers-are-instructed-to-drive-recklessly-to-meet-delivery-quotas. 80. “Welcome to the ELD Home Page,” ELD | Electronic Logging Devices, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, United States Department of Transportation, accessed November 28, 2021, https://eld.fmcsa.dot.gov. 81. Alex Scott, Andrew Balthrop, and

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Jason Miller, “Did the Electronic Logging Device Mandate Reduce Accidents?” SSRN, January 24, 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3314308. 82. Truckerman19, “LOG BOOK,” SCS Software message board, SCS Software

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, September 11, 2018, https://forum.scssoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=260120. 83. Rookie-31st, “Electronic Logging Device,” American Truck Simulator General Discussions, American Truck Simulator, STEAM, Valve Corporation, June 11, 2018, https://steamcommunity.com/app/270880/discussions/0/1697175413687762277/?ctp=2. 84

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

backup dashboard camera because in an accident you can never have too much evidence, and a third camera provided by his employer; a federally mandated electronic logging device with a tablet-based interface, which is connected directly to the innards of his truck and tracks his hours on the road; an E-Z

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loading or unloading times, when they might nap in their sleeper cabin. All that started to change in December 2015, when laws mandating use of electronic logging devices came into effect. They were the result of thirty years of political and legal wrangling between insurers, large fleet operators, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety

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on them—that is, all of us—needs them to be. Chapter 12 How “Hitler’s Highway” Became America’s Circulatory System Just before the electronic logging device of the hypothetical driver hauling our USB charger registers a violation of the rule limiting him to eleven hours of driving time in a single

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-timeline-of-the-eld-mandate-history-and-important-dates. no effect on the number of crashes: Alex Scott, Andrew Balthrop, and Jason Miller, “Did the Electronic Logging Device Mandate Reduce Accidents?” January 11, 2019. Available at SSRN, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3314308. half of America’s 5,400 Walmarts: Ashley Coker, “Walmart Faces

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ports and, 74–75, 79, 81, 84–85; CDL (commercial driver’s license), 115, 220; delivery to warehouse, 139–40; hours of service rules and electronic logging devices, 124–25, 127, 155; idle time and inefficiencies, 74–76, 137–39; interstate highway system, 127–34; loading delivery trucks at Amazon, 194–95; longshoremen

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil  · 5 Sep 2016  · 252pp  · 72,473 words

manifold ways to study drivers’ behavior in exquisite detail. For a preview, look no further than the trucking industry. These days, many trucks carry an electronic logging device that registers every turn, every acceleration, every time they touch the brakes. And in 2015, Swift Transportation, the nation’s largest trucking company, started to