ELDorado ELD Yanked From FMCSA Approved List

Companies using ELDorado’s electronic logging device (ELD) have until Nov. 7 to replace them, after a regulator delisted the product. 

ELDorado’s ELD was removed Sept. 7 from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) list of registered ELDs, according to an FMCSA notice. This was “due to the company’s failure to meet the minimum requirements established in 49 C.F.R. §395, Subpart B, Appendix A, according to the notice. 

The code section specifies that an ELD “without a printer be designed so that the display may be reasonably viewed by an authorized safety official without entering the commercial motor vehicle.” 

The delisting means that any vehicles still using the company’s product after Nov. 7 would be treated as driving without an ELD. Thus, FMCSA “strongly encourages” carriers to replace their ELDorado ELD with a compliant ELD.  

Drivers cited for operating without an ELD can be taken out of service. 

In the meantime, FMCSA recommends that carriers stop using the device and revert to paper logs or logging software to record their hours of service.