How 1 million ELD fraudsters broke the trucking industry, and how to save it
Big fleet CEO Zach Meiborg says it's time to get real about rampant ELD fraud, illegal capacity, and outdated hours of service...
The compliant carrier finishes last? Fleet owner and third-generation trucker Zach Meiborg explains in this editorial and graphics how unchecked ELD cheating has led to two different trucking markets.Zach Meiborg
Widespread electronic logging device fraud has split the trucking industry in two, with compliant carriers following the rules and losing and non-compliant carriers cheating to win.
It's an open secret. Everyone knows about ELD cheating, yet the industry has allowed it to fester.
As a compliant carrier with more than 250 trucks in operation, I'm pretty passionate about ELD fraud, and to me it's the first issue of our core problem in trucking. We have outdated regulation being enforced with modern technology, and it's created a divergent supply curve.
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