A promotion that was dropped into the
Overdrive's Trucking Pro LinkedIn group by a member recently caught my eye. It came from a rep at Geospace Labs, which offers the Geowiz electronic logging device, among other products. The promo promised what was once, and remains for some, a holiest of holy grails in the crowded ELD market – a no-monthly-fee device and software.
Screengrab of the post shared in the LinkedIn group ...
We've lost more than one provider offering similar service since the mandate began being enforced in late 2017. Those range from the Zed ELD and the ill-fated and cheekily named F-ELD from the former One20 company to, just this past year, what might once have been the gold standard among such no-monthly-fee devices, with a long history dating back almost a decade in the Continental VDO RoadLog. My back-of-the-envelope accounting left me with the impression that there were exactly three remaining such devices otherwise, those available from the West Virginia-headquartered Blue Ink Technology, the Switchboard company, and GPS giant Garmin.