Efficiency Starts With Improved Safety
The main purpose of the ELD mandate is to ensure drivers comply with the HoS rules. These guidelines improve safety by reducing driver fatigue, delivery errors, and the potential for road accidents.
Many ELDs are also equipped with safety features like built-in dash cams, communication tools, and analytics software. Since an ELD can track the motion and speed of a truck, it can provide crash prevention alerts and driver performance insights through integrated software like Drivewyze Safety+.
When equipped with weigh station bypass software, an ELD eliminates the need for a windshield transponder. These transponders are not only costly to maintain but can compromise the driver’s vision and overall safety. For example, most drivers have to perform dangerous lane changes to drive under a transponder-reader pole for weigh station bypass instructions. Instead, with a bypass service like Drivewyze PreClear® integrated into an ELD, law enforcement can receive important data about the oncoming truck, regardless of the lane the truck is in before it even reaches the scale house. This also allows law enforcement to grant weigh station bypass to fleets with a robust safety score.
Through these innovative and easily integrated safety features, fleets can move more efficiently, communicate better, and have more satisfied, confident drivers.
