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ELDs innocent until proven guilty as highway killers
When the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released its 2018 data this fall, some entities saw an excuse to trot out the ELD punching bag. They use two big-picture trends to claim that the electronic logging device mandate, in its first full year during 2018, was a cause of higher truck-related fatalities. After all, overall highway deaths dropped 2.4% in 2018, while truck-related fatalities rose.
But not so fast...