ELD fraud: Drivers reveal what it's like hauling 16, 18, 22 hours a day
Overdrive tells the story of truck drivers coerced to run around the clock for fleets they say engage in ELD fraud, monitor the...
Electronic logging device fraud, the way as many as a million non-compliant trucks have undercut the industry and run rates into the ground, leaves a victim too often overlooked: The drivers.
Overdrive's reported extensively on law enforcement struggles to bring backend ELD manipulation to heel, likewise the fleets who run their drivers ragged.
The voices are sometimes frantic, scattered and scared. With time itself stacked against them, drivers lose their grip on linear storytelling, like words running into the margins and off the page.
"If I tell you anything, if I tell you what I know, if I give you evidence -- can you do something about it? It's bigger than what you wrote," one driver said. "From top to bottom, cover-ups, crooked cops, fake loads, fake warehouses," an entire fake industry runs on the backs of drivers pushed to haul way over hours day in and day out.
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