ELD Mandate Fact No. 42: The ELD will make the commercial truck driver’s life much easier by making them focus on driving instead of driver logs.
ELD Fact No. 43: They also estimate that the time commercial drivers spend filing or forwarding their RODS to carriers, which the agency estimates take five minutes and occur 25 times per year – eliminating two more hours a year.
ELD Mandate Fact No. 44: In short, that’s a potential 20+ hours of drive time wasted by filing and sending paper driver logs.
ELD Mandate Fact No. 45: If you are an owner/operator able to charge today’s rate of $1.92/mile for a dry van operation and driving 50 MPH, that’s $1,920 in lost revenue each year.
ELD Mandate Fact No. 46: While the math on accident reduction savings is trickier, the FMCSA did calculate an average safety benefit of $187 per long-haul ELD user and $126 per short-haul ELD user.
