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Drivewyze And Diesel Tech Industries Partner To Bring Weigh Station Bypass And In-Cab Safety Alerts To Guardian ELOG Customers

PLANO, Texas, June 20, 2024 – Drivewyze, the North American leader in connected truck services and the largest public-private weigh station bypass network operator, recently announced it has partnered with Diesel Tech Industries to provide its Guardian ELOG customers with integrated access to Drivewyze PreClear weigh station bypass and Drivewyze Safety+ services. Diesel Tech Industries offers several key fleet management technologies for trucking companies and owner operators that operate in Canada and in the U.S. “Diesel Tech Industries continues to grow and expand its suite of fleet management products for its customers,” said Frances Kilgour, VP of Business Development and Channel Management for Drivewyze. “We’re excited to partner with Diesel Tech Industries and provide its Guardian ELOG customers integrated access to our weigh station bypass and in-cab safety notifications services.” Since no transponders are required, activation of Drivewyze PreClear on the Guardian ELOG platform can be done in minutes. Drivewyze transmits safety scores, registration, and tax compliance information to the weigh station, which then calculates the information against the bypass criteria established by its state or province. If the carrier and vehicle pass the criteria, at one mile out, the driver receives permission to bypass the site. The better the fleet’s safety score, the more bypasses typically granted. Through Drivewyze PreClear, Guardian ELOG customers have the ability to receive bypass opportunities at more than 900 locations in 47 states and provinces. In addition to Drivewyze PreClear, Guardian ELOG customers can access Drivewyze Safety+, which provides drivers with real-time weather alerts, as well as in-cab safety alerts for upcoming dangerous curves, low bridges, and high speeding citation areas, and more. Drivewyze’s back-office tools also allow fleets to create their own customized driver alerts, plus our safety analytics allow fleets to monitor driver behavior and help in drivercoaching. According to Rebecca Goldsack, Diesel Tech Industries COO, adding integrated access to Drivewyze’s PreClear and Safety+ services is expected to be a welcomed new offering for its customer base. “Bypassing weigh stations is a tremendous opportunity for fleets and owner operators to save time and operating costs associated with spending time at weigh stations waiting for an inspection,” said Goldsack. “We’re pleased to partner with the leading provider of this service in Drivewyze. Drivewyze PreClear and its in-cab safety notifications service,Safety+, can help our customers operate more efficiently and safe.” “Drivewyze’s PreClear combined with the Guardian ELOG has been a game-changer for our trucking operations,” said B. Richardson Transportation, Blake Richardson, who beta-tested the Guardian ELOG and Drivewyze integrated offering. “Using the Guardian ELOG with Drivewyze, we seamlessly navigate past busy trucking scales, saving us up to 10 minutes each day, if not more, while maintaining compliance. Together, they’ve streamlined our trips, boosting efficiency and peace of mind on the road. We highly recommend Drivewyze to any fleet looking to optimize their operations.” About Drivewyze Inc.: Drivewyze Inc. is a leader in the transportation technology industry that builds innovative solutions for commercial fleets, drivers, and transportation infrastructure owners and operators. Drivewyze delivers best-in-class in-cab services to commercial fleets and drivers, like Drivewyze PreClear weigh station bypass service and Drivewyze Safety+ proactive safety alerts. Drivewyze Infrastructure Services provides solutions to state agencies, including Smart Roadside commercial vehicle enforcement (CVE) electronic screening, Central Park truck parking management, and Smart Roadways connected truck solutions. To learn more about Drivewyze, visit https://drivewyze.com/. About Diesel Tech Industries: Diesel Tech Industries, a subsidiary of Diesel Tech Truck Repair (Est.1999), was founded in 2005 in Edmonton, Alberta and has taken on multiple challenges that have faced the trucking industry over the years. All of our products are designed around our proprietary technology of reading engine data and performing an action, thus bringing many products to market with the help of our multidisciplinary team of 30 employees. We have worked at a fast pace to develop some of the most innovative and useful products in the transportation industry to help achieve driver safety. We take pride in our simple, practical, and functional design with our Guardian ELOG, which is an Electronic logging device that is Certified with Transport Canada as well as with the FMCSA. We were the first in Alberta, and the second in Canada to be certified by an accredited certification body. All of our products are designed with simplicity and practicality in mind for ease of use to ensure we are providing the highest level of safety for drivers on the road. To learn more about Diesel Tech Industries, visit https://GuardianELD.com

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Revolutionizing Logging Industry Compliance: The British Columbia ELD Mandate for HOS

Effective August 1, 2023, the British Columbia, Ministry of Transportation will be implementing the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate for HOS. The Logging and Forestry Industry standards are different from regular HOS.   Here’s what you need to know: You can have a maximum of 13 hours of driving time in a 24-hour period or work shift. Cannot drive after 15 hours of on-duty or elapsed time since the start of the work shift. Must have at least 9 hours of off-duty time between shifts. Must not drive after 65 driving hours in seven days. Must not drive after 80 hours of on-duty in seven days Must be off duty at least 24 consecutive hours every seven days (Note: Logger HOS does not reset but continue to be a rolling 7-day total). Must have a logbook, regardless of the distance travelled (when operating under the standard HOS rules, you usually do not need to use the logbook if you work within the 160 km radius of your home terminal). Have to indicate that they are “operating under logging truck hours” in the logbook Remarks section. Cannot defer off-duty time. Universal logbook rules that apply to most carriers (including loggers) are: keep your last six months of logs at your business place. You can use your commercial motor vehicle for personal use for 75 km. Keep your previous 14 days of logs in the truck. Transitioning to an ELD from paper does not have to be a complex process. The Guardian ELOG was designed to emulate the old paper process of reporting hours closely to facilitate the transition to an ELD tablet. Whether fleets have 1 or 500 drivers in your fleet, the Guardian tablet was designed to ensure that even someone with less knowledge of technology can run the Guardian ELOG with ease.   Access to the Guardian Dashboard allows Fleet and Safety Managers to keep their team compliant. With an ease-of-use login system, you will be able to track drivers’ hours, active vehicles, Inspection reports and more.  Reach out to one of our team members today and let us help you find a solution for your ELD needs. info@dtiguardian.com or 780-455-9876 / 1-888-235-0244

ELD // FROM THE EXPERTS

Passenger vehicles are sharing busier and busier highways with more commercial vehicles – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, in varying road conditions. While the importance of improving road safety is obvious, putting plans and rules into place that the transportation and logistics industry can easily adopt is a significant challenge. Now that ELDs will be mandatory as of January 1, 2023 you will be pleasantly surprised to learn that it may help you run your operation more efficiently. Most ELDs on the market can minimize dangerous driving by sending reports of location and speed aswell as,  tracking daily inspections to let you know of any potential problems that could become a safety issue. ELDs also provide a comprehensive solution to the electronic logging needs of the driver and fleet managers. Drivers and managers can use information from the ELD for better location tracking and better route management. Any Canadian certified ELD has been designed and tested to be fully compliant with government requirements.  Getting a head start on installing your ELD will give you an advantage in the industry with more time to learn and for training your drivers on the ins and outs of your new ELD system. Waiting for the deadline will mean fighting the potential backlog at the service facilities, so it may be best to beat the rush and find a facility that will install your equipment as early as possible. Having a ELOG/ELD system installed and connected to your commercial vehicles can increase your productivity, by removing the headache of administrative work, providing options to monitor the status of your drivers and more. Automated records leave fewer issues for the driver to think about so they can focus on driving instead of trying to remember the last time the log was maintained or how many minutes are left on the clock before the next required rest stop or shift reset. Improving safety for commercial drivers is the primary objective of the ELD mandate. With the mandate in place, the goal is to reduce driver fatigue, and accidents and manage Hours of Service (HoS) considerations. ELDs will make driving safer for everyone on the road. They accomplish this in more ways than the obvious benefit of helping to enforce a limit on the number of hours CMV drivers spend behind the wheel. The system keeps accurate records of the hours spent driving to ensure your drivers aren’t fatigued in order to keep them safe and compliant. Keeping records digitally minimizes the risk of data loss, as well as minimizing your cabinet filing space.  The ELD mandate applies to federally regulated carriers, which means over 250,000 commercial vehicles. This means that transportation businesses that operate across more than one province will lie under federal jurisdiction; meanwhile, operations within one province will classify as provincial jurisdiction. Many provinces now require the use of an ELOG/ELD.The Canadian ELD mandate requires non-exempt commercial vehicles to use a certified ELD. There are limited exemptions in place, such as vehicle models dated 2000 or earlier due to the fact that they are not equipped with engine control. Currently, provincial regulations are left up to each province to decide if they want to implement the hardware into their commercial vehicles.