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-
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