Commercial Trucking Goes Green for Safer Streets | Cozen O'Connor
A new federal mandate requires most commercial truck drivers to “go green” by trading in their old paper logs for electronic logging devices (ELDs) by December 18, 2017. Thought to affect roughly 3.5 million truck drivers, the new mandate is intended to increase driver compliance with federal drive-time regulations and decrease burdensome paperwork.
Commercial truck drivers are legally required to take a lengthy break after 11 hours of consecutive driving, but drivers have admitted to driving longer hours and falsifying their logs.
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