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ELD headaches: Dealing with technical glitches and other equipment issues
Entertainment-niche team owner-operators Nick and Kim Holley had some use of electronic logging devices in their past when their current leasing carrier dropped Omnitracs’ XRS ELD setup on them late last year in advance of the ELD mandate’s Dec. 18 deadline. Their XRS unit is of the BYOD (“bring your own device”) type, paired with a dedicated tablet that is the user interface.
The device is normally “pretty flawless,” Kim says, “but set up as a team, there is a plethora of problems.” In her 42 years of marriage to her husband, “I’ve never heard him swear, but since we put this system in, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard him.”
Nick Holley, no doubt, is far from alone in frustration over misbehaving ELDs.