Nationwide ELD Yanked From FMCSA List

Companies using Nationwide Technologies’ electronic logging device (ELD) must switch devices by April 4, after a regulator delisted the product. 

The Nationwide ELD was removed Feb. 3 from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) list of registered ELDs, according to an FMCSA notice. The delisting was “due to the company’s failure to meet the minimum requirements established” in a subsection of 49 C.F.R. Part 395, the notice states. 

The code requires that an ELD that doesn’t have a printer “be designed so that the display may be reasonably viewed by an authorized safety official without entering the commercial motor vehicle.” 

Any vehicles still utilizing the Nationwide ELD after April 4 will be treated as operating without an ELD. Thus, FMCSA “strongly encourages” carriers to replace their Nationwide product with a compliant one, as drivers cited for operating without an ELD can be taken out of service. 

In the interim, FMCSA recommends that those carriers using the Nationwide device revert to paper logs or logging software to record their hours of service.