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While most owner-operators are ready for the ELD mandate, many are unhappy with the electronic logs, and blame them for a loss of productivity and a resulting decline in income, finds a recent DAT survey of 645 carriers and owner-operators.
In addition, it’s harder to find parking for trucks, driver detention remains a problem, and shippers don’t seem to be taking driver hours of service into account when loading and unloading, according to survey respondents.
Among the survey highlights:
- 91 percent of carriers comply with the ELD mandate.
- 81 percent have already installed ELDs, 10 percent are exempt from the mandate, and two percent planned to comply by the April 1 deadline.
- 53 percent started using ELDs fewer than three months ago.
- 77 percent report that at least one in five of their loads involve detention of more than two hours.
- 87 percent say it’s harder to find truck parking since the mandate took effect.
- Only 2.8 percent describe themselves as “likely” or “very likely” to leave the trucking industry.
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