Twenty-nine percent of every ELD ever certified is gone

Good morning.

Last Tuesday I said I would count what is actually left on the ELD registry, and what a revoked device does to a log you already filed.

Both answers are worse than I expected, and the second is not written down anywhere in the regulations.

Two-thirds of that was not enforcement. 252 of the 384 removals are marked Self Revoked — the manufacturer withdrew the device. FMCSA revoked 132. The agency is the minority actor in its own compliance list.

Which fits a line on the registered list most operators have never read: these devices are “self-certified by the manufacturer,” and FMCSA “does not endorse” any of them. Registration was never a seal of approval. It is a form somebody filed.

2026 has already produced 99 revocations against 67 in all of 2025, with four months to run.

Nobody is going to call you.

INDICATIVE FIGURES. NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PAID INTELLIGENCE.

Sources: FreightWaves, Overdrive, CDLLife, Land Line.

The rule that takes your ELD away never mentions you

§395.22(a) says a motor carrier “must use only an ELD that is listed on” the registered devices list. No transition. No grace period. The moment your device leaves that list, you are outside that sentence.

Appendix A, §5.4 is the removal process itself: notice to the provider, 30 days to respond, agency action, 60 days for the provider to comply. Read end to end, it never addresses the motor carrier. You are not a party to the proceeding that strips the device you bought.

FMCSA fills the gap only in the revocation notice, which tells carriers to discontinue the device and revert to paper logs, and separately gives 60 days to replace it.

Those two are sequential, not alternative. The 60 days is to buy hardware, not 60 days of continued use. A carrier that reads “we have 60 days” and keeps running the device is recording duty status on something that is no longer an ELD — and the violation is §395.8(a)(1), no record of duty status, a CVSA out-of-service condition. The truck stops at the roadside on day one, not day 61.

One thing I could not resolve: whether logs already created on a since-revoked device stay valid. The notice addresses use “on or after” the deadline, which implies earlier records stand — but that is an inference, not a ruling, and I will not print it as one.

The FMCSA ELD registry — checked properly

Your vendor’s name is not the check. 53 companies appear on both lists at once, some with more devices revoked than registered — Azuga shows 6 registered against 24 revoked, Gorilla Fleet Safety 7 against 18.

Neither is your ELD identifier. On August 9, Geosavi self-revoked four builds of a product called Compliance Now — Android/Geometris, Android/Pacific Tracks, iOS/Pacific Tracks, Android/CalAmp Veosphere. A fifth build is still registered. All five carry the same ELD identifier: GEO001. The code your driver transmits at the roadside is on both lists simultaneously.

The honest limits. Four of the 384 revoked rows carry no date at all, and three of those four are J. J. Keller tablets, self-revoked. That is not misconduct — retiring a device is the system working. But a fleet running one cannot learn from FMCSA’s own list when it stopped being an ELD. The list tells you that you have a problem. It does not always tell you since when.

Registry note: 11 devices left the registered list this month — seven on August 6 (five revoked by FMCSA, two self-revoked) and four Geosavi builds on August 9.