Stay FMCSA compliant without drowning your team in paperwork.
The ELD mandate made electronic logs table stakes. But there's a wide gap between a device that satisfies an inspector and a system that actually lowers your risk.
Violations compound. They affect your CSA scores, your insurance premiums, your ability to win contracts, and in the worst case whether you stay on the road. A logbook that's merely legal doesn't help you get ahead of any of that.
Argos implements FMCSA-compliant ELD on the Geotab platform, where hours-of-service data sits alongside your GPS, engine diagnostics, and video. A violation isn't just recorded — it's attached to the vehicle, the route, and the driving behavior that produced it, so you can fix the cause instead of filing the symptom.
Less admin, fewer violations, better ratings.
Everything the mandate requires, automated.
The best-configured ELD fails if the cab hates it.
Compliance data is worth more when it isn't stranded.
If you operate qualified vehicles across two or more member jurisdictions, you're filing IFTA quarterly. Done by hand it means reconciling fuel receipts against trip sheets and hoping the numbers hold up.
Because the platform already knows where every vehicle drove and how far, jurisdiction mileage is calculated from recorded trips rather than reconstructed after the fact. Filing becomes a report you pull instead of a week you lose — and if you're ever audited, the underlying trip data is there to support it.
A long-haul carrier, a construction fleet running short-haul exceptions, and a municipal shop with mixed CDL and non-CDL drivers have very different exposure. We configure to your operation, not a template.
Broadly, drivers of commercial motor vehicles who are currently required to keep records of duty status must use a registered ELD. If your drivers are filling out logs today, you're almost certainly in scope.
The mandate is about the record-keeping requirement rather than the vehicle itself, which is why two trucks of the same size can land on opposite sides of it depending on how they operate.
Yes. Geotab Drive runs on iOS and Android, so drivers can use a device they already know rather than learning dedicated hardware. That matters more than it sounds — familiarity is a large share of whether logs get kept correctly.
If you'd rather issue and control the devices, that works too. We'll talk through the tradeoffs on support and replacement before you commit either way.
The driver presents their logs from the app and can transfer the record to the inspector through the standard methods the mandate provides. Supporting documentation stays accessible rather than living in a binder behind the seat.
Part of onboarding is making sure drivers have actually practiced this before they need it. An inspection is a poor time to learn a new screen.
Indirectly, and significantly. Hours-of-service violations feed the HOS Compliance category of your safety measurement profile, and roadside inspection results drive what carriers and shippers see about you.
An ELD doesn't improve a score on its own — it removes the form errors and missed logs that generate avoidable violations, and it surfaces the patterns behind the rest. Fleets that treat the alerts as a coaching input rather than a filing obligation are the ones whose numbers move.
The International Fuel Tax Agreement governs how carriers report and pay fuel taxes across member jurisdictions in the US and Canada. If you run qualified vehicles in more than one, you file quarterly.
The platform calculates jurisdiction mileage from recorded trips, so the report is built from what the vehicles actually did rather than from reconstructed trip sheets.
It depends on your fleet's needs and preferences.
A GO device can be self-installed in a matter of minutes. For professional installation, we coordinate with your team to minimize downtime.
Whether you want a quick deployment or a systematic rollout, we work with you every step of the way.
This page is a general overview, not legal or regulatory advice. Requirements depend on your operation — refer to FMCSA for authoritative guidance, or ask us and we'll walk through your specifics.
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