Compliance is important for safety as well as your bottom line. The key is implementing technology that provides peace of mind for your business and gives you more time to be productive.
Verizon Connect is committed to helping trucking fleets follow Department of Transportation (DOT) rules with easy-to-use, innovative solutions. Stay current with all the most recent DOT government regulations.
Administered through the FMCSA, DOT compliance affects millions of commercial drivers throughout North America and includes hours of service rules (such as the Electronic Logging Device mandate) and driver vehicle inspection reports (DVIRs). Our software solutions can help you meet your legal obligations and maintain, or improve, your CSA score.
Our platform helps you address all your fleet management software requirements, including motor carrier compliance, in one integrated system. This can simplify systems management, reduce user training and administrative paperwork, speed up deployment and offer easier reporting options. Better sharing of data can also help your team address non-compliance issues before they become a problem.
We build solutions aimed at helping motor vehicle fleets be more profitable—you can’t avoid regulatory requirements but you can find ways to avoid it being an expensive burden. Add extra features such as IFTA fuel reports or track cargo temperatures to ease Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulatory compliance.
Our driver compliance solutions are focused on making the workday simpler—less paperwork, automated reporting and near real-time information on jobs to be done, places to go and the best way to get there, all direct to their smartphone. Drivers also get access to around-the-clock ELD phone support.
Our partnerships with a growing number of car and truck makers means you don’t need any additional GPS tracking hardware to start managing your fleet vehicles online.
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Administered through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Department of Transportation (DOT) compliance affects millions of commercial drivers throughout North America and includes hours of service rules (such as the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate) and driver vehicle inspection reports (DVIRs).
To be compliant with federal law at all times requires the recording of vehicle and driver information. This information, such as the drivers location are best logged at specified increments automatically through our GPS fleet management solution. In addition, our mobile apps facilitate HOS compliance by providing and ELD for drivers as well as DVIR inspection reports.
The formal, external Carrier Safety Administration (CSA) scoring by the FMCSA reflects actual checks and audits. Using our ELD app provides internal monitoring to get ahead of problems through an HOS violations report before a roadside inspection or an actual check or audit takes place.
There are 4 different types of violations that are supported by the ELD. These are Cycle on-duty violations, Daily on-duty violations, Daily driving violations and Mandatory break violations.
Possible causes for these violations are:
Driving after exceeding the permitted on-duty limit for your cycle
Not taking a long enough break to reset your cycle
Forgetting to change your status to Off Duty when a cycle reset was required
Driving for more than 8 cumulative hours without taking a rest break of at least 30 minutes
Just having an ELD does not prevent HOS violations. However a system with powerful reporting and visibility tools can help uncover bad behaviors through reports and dashboards.
Using our mobile app, drivers can use Roadside Inspection Mode and share only the legally required information (last 7 days) with inspectors. In the event of a full audit, additional, in-depth reports can be produced to demonstrate compliance.
ELD and HOS reports are proof of compliant driver activity. Drivers need to certify their logs at the end of each day. When Driver logs are requested by a roadside officer or during an audit one may use the feature in the Logbook app to send ELD transmission files to the FMCSA.
We focus on a narrow area of the Behavior Analysis Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs). and there are areas that we don't help with, The BASICs include:
Unsafe driving
HOS compliance
Driver fitness
Controlled substances and alcohol
Vehicle maintenance
Hazardous materials compliance
Crash indicator
Drivers' hours of service are monitored in near real-time. Warnings inform you that you are approaching a violation of your permitted hours of service (HOS).
In the ELD drivers can edit their own logs and choose their own On/Off Duty statuses. Drivers cannot remove or reduce drive time. If the vehicle is being driven without a driver connected an Unidentified Driving events occurs and the fleet manager is alerted to assign or Marked Exempt the event.
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