In its biggest purge of electronic logging devices, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration today pulled 133 of them from the agency’s Registered Devices List.
In a statement announcing the removals, the FMCSA said, "This historic crackdown targeted illegal logging devices used by fraudsters to cheat safety rules, bypass mandated rest periods, and undercut trucker wages."
The agency claimed the use of these devices can be directly sourced to deadly crashes across America.
The FMCSA maintains the instances of fraud and abuse were severe and endangered thousands of Americans on our roads. Examples include (cases are anonymized to avoid compromising ongoing investigations):
- ELD Company A allowed carriers to completely bypass hours of service limits by calling a support line to manually wipe out driving time and fabricate rest periods while actively driving.
- ELD Company B was caught actively uploading fake logs during an active roadside inspection to cover up a driver operating hours beyond the legal limit.
- ELD Company C logs showed drivers traveling at mathematically impossible speeds of up to 130 miles per hour to compress driving time.
"We are cracking down on rampant fraud on America’s roads. This latest crackdown – which required hundreds of man hours and extensive forensic investigations – will prevent criminals from cooking the books, sabotaging trucker wages, and endangering you and your family when you drive,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
Today’s action removes 121 agency-revoked devices and 12 voluntary self-revocations that failed to meet standards of readiness, according to the FMCSA.
"Motor carriers must have confidence that every device on FMCSA’s public registry is compliant, secure, and actively supported,” said FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs. "We are removing noncompliant and fraudulent devices to close loopholes that can be exploited to evade oversight, avoid revocation, bypass vetting requirements, or undermine accurate hours-of-service records."
Motor carriers have up to 60 days to replace the revoked ELDs with a compliant ELD. For more information on ELDs and to find a list of the revoked devices, visit FMCSA’s ELD website.
After 60 days, motor carriers who continue to use the revoked devices will be considered as operating without an ELD. Safety officials who encounter a driver using the revoked devices on or after Nov. 24, 2026, should cite 395.8(a)(1) and place the driver out-of-service in accordance with the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance OOS Criteria.
If the ELD provider corrects all identified deficiencies for its device, FMCSA will place the ELD back on the list of registered devices and inform the industry of the update.
