Registered is not verified.

Last Tuesday I promised you a deadline and ten device names. Both are below. But I went to count the revocations first, and the count turned into a different issue.

FMCSA doesn’t publish that number, so I worked it out from our own mirror of the registry. Then I noticed the same flaw in three other places.

— Aman

Last week I promised the September 8 ELD deadline and the ten devices behind it. Here it is — plus what I found when I counted.

In nine days, four credentials failed in public. A device listing. A commercial driver’s licence. The identity behind it. The operating authority itself.

Every one is the same object: a claim on a form, accepted first and checked later. Sometimes never. The courts, the Senate and FMCSA all noticed at once.

FMCSA does not publish a count of how many electronic logging devices it has pulled off the registered list. So I counted. We mirror the registry daily — 275 unique device listings. By year, FMCSA-initiated revocations:

Seven months already beat all of last year by a third. The pace annualises to about 84.

A correction. Issue #11 printed “79 devices since January 2025,” from trade coverage. My own count is 86 FMCSA-initiated, 123 including vendors who withdrew their own listings. Close, not the same — and now it’s a number I can show the working for.

Ten devices go out of service Tuesday, September 8: Ontime Logs iosix, LAST MINUTE ELD, Porter ELD, Zee HOS Compliance, EV ELD IOSIX, Light and Travel ELD, PREMIERRIDE LOGS, 2BRO ELD, 305 ELD, TT ELD 40. Run one after that and you have no record of duty status.

Then the entry that changed how I read the list: Geotab Drive for Platform Science, withdrawn voluntarily on July 29 by a company backed by Trimble, Cummins, Daimler, Paccar and Schneider. J. J. Keller is on there too. Nobody did anything wrong. Products get discontinued.

The driver’s clock doesn’t care why. Sixty days either way.

Nobody certifies these devices. Vendors certify themselves, get listed, and FMCSA removes them afterwards. Carrier authority works the same way — self-certify on the MCS-150, start hauling, safety audit up to eighteen months later. The rule to reverse that order has been stalled since 2009.

Still owed from Issue #9: the 50-state CDL self-reporting map. Four issues carried. I’ll settle it next week either way.

I went looking for ten device names and found a design flaw with four instances. Certify first, verify later — and the gap lands on the operator every time.

The credential is cheap. The verification is worth dating.

Next Tuesday: AI in Freight — Freight Hero says its AI agents handle more than 90% of customer load touches, and J.B. Hunt just deployed its first agentic AI. I’m going to find out what they do when you ask something they don’t know.

— Aman · [email protected]