Fleet Management News & Business Info | Commercial Carrier Journal
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Vo l . 8 , N o . 3 TRUCKSTOP.COM 23 WHAT SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS MUST BE KEPT AND CARRIED? Drivers will still be required to keep and carry documentation that verifies hours of service for that driver. e supporting documents can be either paper or electronic documents. Documents verifying driving time would not need to be kept because that will be kept on the ELD. However, documents that verify a driver's on-duty status or non-driving time will need to be kept. Carriers must maintain no more than 10 supporting documents for every 24 hour period a driver is on duty from either of these categories: (1) bills of lading, itineraries, schedules or other documents that show trip origin and destination; (2) dispatch records, trip records or similar documents; (3) expense receipts; (4) electronic mobile communication records sent through fleet management systems; or (5) payroll records, settlement sheets or other documents that show how and what a driver has been paid. PROTECTIONS AGAINST DRIVER HARASSMENT Provisions have been put into the new rule to prevent ELDs from being used to harass drivers. New proposed safeguards against harassment include expanding drivers' access to records, explicit wording about carriers harassing drivers, implementing a complaint procedure, tightening penalties for those who do harass drivers, edit rights for drivers, limits on location tracking and a mute functionality for devices to preserve a driver's confidentiality in enforcement proceedings. It also includes the two primary focuses on harassment from the 2010 rule that takes away pressures to exceed hours of service limits and "inappropriate communications that affect drivers' rest periods," while the driver is in the sleeper compartment. HARDWARE SPECIFICATION FOR ELDS ELDs must be tamper resistant and be integrated with a truck's engine to record location information. e device will track the truck's movement and allow for notations by both drivers and carriers to explain or correct records. ey must sync with a truck's engine to capture power status, motion status, miles driven and hours on the engine. ey must automatically enter changes of duty status, 60-minute intervals while the truck is moving and engine-on and engine-off status. e ELD must also show a grid of driver daily duty status changes either on the unit itself or on a printout. ONE FINAL NOTE: Carriers who used automatic onboard recording devices prior to the ELD mandate would have an additional two years (2018) to comply with the mandate. " " NEW PROPOSED SAFEGUARDS AGAINST HARASSMENT INCLUDE EXPANDING DRIVERS' ACCESS TO RECORDS... IMPLEMENTING A COMPLAINT PROCEDURE.