The FMCSA eliminated 10 extra digital logging gadgets from the registered record at this time. OnTime Logs iOSix from OnTime Logs Inc. LAST MINUTE ELD from Final Minute ELD. Porter ELD from Porter ELD. Zee HOS Compliance from Zee App. EV ELD IOSIX from Ev ELD Inc. Gentle and Journey ELD from LIGHT AND TRAVEL LLC. PREMIERRIDE LOGS from PREMIERRIDE LOGS LLC. Two gadgets, 2BRO ELD and 305 ELD, from TWO BRO SECURITY & IT SOLUTIONS. TT ELD 40 from TT ELD Inc. All ten failed the minimal technical necessities in 49 CFR Appendix A to Subpart B of Half 395. All ten are on the revoked record as of this afternoon.
Add at this time’s ten to the twelve from Might 20, and TRUCKSTAFF ELD from June 23, and the full since January 2025 is ninety. Ninety gadgets in eighteen and a half months. 4.9 per 30 days, which is strictly the tempo I calculated seven weeks in the past. Nothing concerning the enforcement tempo has modified. The tempo is the tempo.
Administrator Derek Barrs once more put everyone on discover: “We are going to proceed to take decisive enforcement motion to make sure that solely compliant, dependable gadgets are used on our nation’s roadways. Correct hours-of-service data are important to defending public security, supporting honest enforcement, and guaranteeing accountability throughout the business motorcar trade.”
Be aware the phrase that was not within the Might assertion. Accountability. If you’re working one of many ten gadgets named at this time, your timeline is similar because it all the time is. Cease utilizing it now. Revert to paper logs or compliant logging software program. Change the gadget with a compliant ELD from the registered record earlier than September 8, 2026. Earlier than that date, roadside enforcement is being advised to not cite drivers utilizing the revoked gadgets for 395.8(a)(1) or 395.22(a). Officers will ask on your paper logs as an alternative. On and after September 8, you may be cited for no file of obligation standing and can exit of service below the CVSA standards. The truck stops. The load doesn’t transfer. The violation lands in SMS and in each provider vetting system that pulls FMCSA knowledge, and it stays there.
That’s the compliance steering. You’ve got learn it right here earlier than. I wrote it on Might 20. I wrote it 13 days earlier than that. I wrote it final Might for the Gorilla Fleet batch. The steering doesn’t change as a result of the underlying downside doesn’t change.
Right here’s what adjustments. Right now’s record isn’t ten impartial failures. There are fewer firms than it appears like. Return to my final piece on this. Close to the underside, within the part the place I advised carriers to audit their very own distributors, I wrote: “Test whether or not any of the producer’s different gadgets have been revoked, as a result of a producer that loses one gadget to a compliance failure might have the identical engineering issues throughout its total product line.”
Right now’s bulletin is that sentence with a case quantity connected. Ethical of the story: hearken to Rob Carpenter. He is aware of issues.
ONTIME LOGS INC is on this record. FMCSA already revoked an OnTime Logs gadget on November 20, 2025. That one was known as Ontime Logs PT, mannequin quantity OTL100. The one pulled at this time is known as Ontime Logs iosix, mannequin quantity OTL101. One digit aside. Eight months aside. Similar firm, each gadgets gone.
EV ELD Inc. is on this record. Besides the bulletin doesn’t say Ev ELD Inc. It says Ev ELD Inc. (f/okay/a Evo ELD Inc.). Previously referred to as. The gadget is EV ELD IOSIX, f/okay/a EVO ELD IOSIX. The mannequin is EV 2, f/okay/a EVO 2. FMCSA revoked EVO ELD 1 on October 17, 2025. That gadget carried ELD identifier G711H2. The gadget revoked at this time carries the identifier G711H3.
Sequential. Consecutive. Registered back-to-back by the identical firm, revoked 9 months aside, with a rebrand in between. Evo grew to become Ev. They dropped a letter.
We spend years monitoring chameleon carriers that die below one DOT quantity and reappear the subsequent quarter below one other, with the identical vans, the identical officers, the identical cellphone quantity, and a touch completely different spelling of the identical identify. Now we have white-label, chameleon ELD networks, a lot of which run on the identical Telegram and RingCentral methods, tying them collectively. The mechanics on show in at this time’s ELD bulletin are the identical habits utilized to a distinct registry.
It really works at scale. Final month, I revealed an investigation into an hours-of-service falsification operation run from Moldova by means of a Wyoming holding firm. That one dad or mum entity owned no less than fourteen ELD manufacturers, added to its portfolio by signed annex, the way in which a provider provides vans. FMCSA revoked six of these manufacturers. It revoked them the way in which the registry permits, one gadget at a time, every revocation a standalone line in a standalone bulletin, and after I final checked the registry in late June, sibling manufacturers from the identical company household had been nonetheless on the registered record. Not as a result of the company missed one thing, however as a result of the registry has no area for “identical proprietor.” Six revocations in opposition to one firm, and the registry recorded them as six unrelated occasions.
Then there’s TWO BRO SECURITY & IT SOLUTIONS, which misplaced two gadgets, 2BRO ELD and 305 ELD, in the identical announcement. Not sequentially. Concurrently. No matter engineering downside existed in a single existed in each, as a result of there was by no means actually multiple factor there. Two SKUs, one codebase. Additionally price noting: that is an IT safety agency promoting hours-of-service compliance {hardware} to motor carriers.
Yet one more, and I wish to watch out with this one as a result of I’ve not confirmed it with the seller. The revoked gadget for Zee App is known as Zee HOS Compliance. Its mannequin quantity, as printed within the FMCSA bulletin, is TTELD101. Additionally revoked at this time: TT ELD 40, from TT ELD Inc. I’m not going to let you know that these two firms are the identical firm. I’m desirous about why Zee App entered TTELD101 as their mannequin quantity.
Two of at this time’s gadgets additionally carry “iosix” within the identify. IOSiX is a Michigan-based {hardware} maker whose automobile dongle is white-labeled by ELD sellers that don’t construct {hardware}. In April 2024, CISA revealed an advisory on the iOSix IO-1020 Micro ELD overlaying vulnerabilities, together with a default WiFi password and a flaw, scored 9.6 out of 10, that permit the gadget obtain and run code with out checking the place it got here from. IOSiX shipped a repair. My level isn’t that at this time’s iOS-badged gadgets carry that flaw. My level is that when the identical bodily field sits behind a dozen model names, a defect within the field is a defect in all of them, and the registry has no method to present you that. The record of ten suppliers isn’t ten engineering groups.
Now return to Accountability.
The structural downside is that when the company revokes a tool, it revokes a tool. It doesn’t revoke a supplier. There isn’t any debarment. There isn’t any ready interval. There isn’t any bar on an organization whose ELD was pulled for failing the technical spec from filling out a recent self-certification type the subsequent morning, below the identical LLC or a brand new one, and receiving a recent ELD identifier for a tool working the identical firmware that simply failed.
Evo ELD Inc. misplaced a tool in October. Evo ELD Inc. grew to become Ev ELD Inc. Ev ELD Inc. had one other gadget on the registered record, utilizing the subsequent identifier in sequence, till this afternoon. Nothing within the ELD rule prevented any of that. FMCSA seems to have caught it, which is why the f/okay/a is within the bulletin in any respect, and that’s genuinely an indication the company is paying consideration in a method it was not two years in the past.
Right now’s bulletin exhibits that the submitting cupboard doesn’t have a reminiscence. Nothing in it hyperlinks a supplier’s revoked gadget to that supplier’s still-registered gadgets. Nothing in it hyperlinks an organization to its personal prior identify. Nothing in it hyperlinks fourteen manufacturers to the one holding firm that owns all of them. There isn’t any vendor-level file. Carriers vetting an ELD buy can not question “has this firm ever had a tool revoked” and get a solution, as a result of the record is organized by gadget, not by the entity behind it.
That could be a fixable downside, and it doesn’t require a rulemaking. It requires a database be part of.
Publish a provider-level view of the registry. Present each gadget a supplier has registered, each gadget a supplier has had revoked, each prior company identify, and the date every gadget went on the record. Give carriers the power to see, in 10 seconds, that the corporate promoting them an ELD misplaced one other gadget 8 months in the past. Proper now, the one particular person within the transaction who can not see the supplier’s historical past is the payer.
There may be additionally the reinstatement clause. If the supplier corrects all recognized deficiencies, FMCSA places the gadget again on the registered record. Units ought to be fixable. The identical query applies. Who verifies the repair? The rule that put the gadget on the record within the first place was self-certification. Is the repair self-certified too? If a supplier tells the FMCSA that it has corrected the deficiency, what does the company confirm earlier than the gadget is returned?
So the recommendation from Might stands, with an modification. In case your ELD remains to be on the registered record, don’t assume you’re protected. Test when the gadget was registered. Test whether or not the producer solutions the cellphone. Test whether or not they have shipped a software program replace within the final twelve months. Now, verify the tougher factor: whether or not the corporate promoting you that gadget is similar firm it was a 12 months in the past, and whether or not the identify in your bill has ever appeared on a revoked-device bulletin below a distinct spelling.
Ninety gadgets in eighteen months. Three of at this time’s ten got here from firms the company had already pulled as soon as. Certainly one of them modified its identify. Final 12 months, I documented a single holding firm that misplaced six manufacturers and stored others on the record. Barrs mentioned the phrase accountability, and I consider he meant it. I consider they’ll hold falling off. Ninety and counting.
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