No “soft enforcement” after AOBRD ELD exemption ends Dec. 16

From Transport Topics.

Commercial vehicle inspectors will not offer a “soft enforcement” grace period for truckers who have not migrated to electronic logging devices from grandfathered automatic onboard recording devices by Dec. 17, the date that full enforcement of the federal ELD rule takes effect.

Unless a motor carrier operates under a short-haul rule exemption, all truckers without an ELD onboard, or those who have not converted their AORBDs to an ELD, will face an out-of-service violation after the Dec. 16 deadline.

There are no excuses for not having an ELD for truckers who are required to, nor will there be any warnings or exceptions, said Collin Mooney, executive director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.

But Mooney said he believes most carriers will be in compliance by the deadline.

“We’re taking a pulse largely from the ELD manufacturers,” Mooney told Transport Topics. “Earlier in the year, they were a little concerned that we were going to have this flood of last-minute conversions. However, the vendors, in working with their clients, believe everybody has either migrated already or will be migrated in time.”

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