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What's the Problem With the Electronic Logging Device?
The electronic logging device, as you mentioned, is federally mandated in the trucking industry. All long haul truckers have to buy and install and use them. The goal is related to safety, right? As you alluded to, we know that truckers are really tired. We know they're incredibly overworked and under slept. And so the ELD is sort of seen as like an answer to this, right? A way to sort of police this behavior by making it ostensibly harder, although not impossible, for truckers to tamper with their logbooks.