Hours of Service 6.1.3 Release Notes

ELD Compliance

To prevent ERODS from failing to transfer successfully to the FMCSA whenever a customer had failed to enter the motor carrier’s DOT # in the required fields, we populated the blank field with a default of 9999999.   We were required to remove this default and are communicating the requirement for motor carriers to review their company set up to ensure their DOT # is populated in all required fields.

In addition to the requirement to enter the DOT#, we have listed other required fields that must be completed by the motor carrier to prevent the ERODS from failing to pass to the FMCSA which could result in inspection violations. 

Office Tab –Company Name must be at least 4 characters in length, and the Carrier must enter their DOT #The full Carrier address must also be entered.

* Any driver not assigned to a Carrier (in the Carrier tab) displays the information provided in the Office tab. 

Carrier Tab – DOT # must be entered for any and all created Carriers that have been created.

Carrier Name -All Carrier Names must be at least 4 characters in length and the full address must be entered. 

Depot – The complete address for the depot must be entered if your drivers intend to enter Canada 

Driver – Driver ID’s must be 4 characters in length, Names must be at least 2 characters in length and the Driver’s License information must be entered as shown as issued including the country and State/Province.

Vehicle ID – The Vehicle ID assigned to a CMV must be at least 1 character in length.   The CMV should be set to ELD mode for each vehicle or identified as using the Fleet Setting.

Users ID –  User ID’s must consist of a minimum of 4 characters.  This requirement includes any web integration users that may be making changes to driver logs.  

 HOS Setup – Ensure that Fleet ELD Mode is set to ELD.
 

Driver Notification when ECM connection is not available

Driver Notification

When the driver clocks in or clocks out using the DHM Portal, the driver will receive a notification (below) that the new On Duty status event (Clock In) or the new Off Duty Status event (Clock Out) may be missing required ELD data elements since there is no connection to an Engine Control Module (ECM).  The ELD regulations require the driver to acknowledgement the notification.  The missing data elements do not have a negative impact on the performance of the ELD or driver information.

Notification Message:

Specific vehicle data elements required for the requested change are unavailable when no ECM connection is detected, you must acknowledge and confirm these required vehicle data elements are missing.

Malfunction Report

The Malfunction Report now includes the new additional potential causes for triggering  Diagnostic and Malfunction events on the mobile device.