Electronic Logging Devices – ELDs

1) Eliminate Hours of Service Violations

HOS violations can result in fines, damage to your CSA scores and increased insurance premiums.

By automating your HOS logging process, the KeepTruckin ELD can help prevent some of the most common and severe driving offenses, including the falsification of logs, unknowingly exceeding the 14-hour rule, and not taking a required 30-minute break after 8 hours of driving.

2) Increase Your Profit Margin with Better Fuel Efficiency

Driving behavior and vehicle monitoring are the biggest contributors to better fuel efficiency. With driver performance monitoring, you can not only identify and retain the best drivers, but you can also help lower-performing drivers.

Idling a heavy-duty truck consumes about 0.8 gallons of fuel per hour. Reducing your speed from 75 mph to 65 mph will increase your fuel efficiency by 277%. With KeepTruckin, you can track speeding, excessive idling, hard accelerations, and other factors that drastically reduce fuel economy—allowing you to correct this behavior.

3) Driver Retention with Incentive Plans

With driver shortages reaching 70,000 last year, and driver turnover at over 90%, motor carriers are undertaking various measures to attract and retain drivers. One method to improve driver retention is to implement a driver incentive program. Use data from the KeepTruckin ELD to benchmark performance in key areas like safety, fuel economy, and compliance and create such incentive programs.

4) Improve Fleet Safety

Data shows that there is a well-established relationship between speed and crash severity. With just a 5% decrease in average speed, there is an approximate 10% reduction in injury crashes and a 20% reduction in fatal crashes. We have seen that comprehensive on-board solutions help address those problems by monitoring key indicators of unsafe driving, like speeding, hard braking, hard cornering, and hard accelerations. More advanced solutions, like KeepTruckin, integrate with dashcams that use AI to detect other behavior like tailgating and driver distraction.

5) Improve Customer Service

It is a known fact that providing exceptional customer service is vital to the growth of any business – and the trucking industry is no different. With KeepTruckin’s on-board technology, you can view any driver’s location, delivery status, available drive time in real time.