Manual logbooks, self-reported hours
Compliance depends on a driver filling in a paper log accurately, with no automatic check against what actually happened.
LOGISTICS AND ELD · FMCSA COMPLIANCE
An ELD records hours. Compliance is the system around it too
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is the US regulator overseeing commercial trucking safety, including hours-of-service rules limiting how long a driver can be on duty. A compliant system needs accurate recording, proper edit logging and retention an inspector can actually check, not just an ELD that captures hours.
THE RANGE OF PRACTICE
What paper logs look like, and what fully compliant looks like
Described by behaviour, not by a score.
An ELD records hours, records handled loosely around it
Hours are captured accurately, but how edits, certifications and record retention are handled may not meet the full requirement.
Recording, editing and retention all meeting the requirement
The full chain, from recorded hours to how a record can be produced for an inspector, built to the standard rather than assumed.
WHERE WE SIT
Built and operated in production, not theoretical
Cetus Pro handles this across all 48 contiguous US states.
Cetus Pro, a client platform we built and continue to operate, handles hours-of-service compliance across all 48 contiguous states. This is not a category we describe from the outside, it is a system we run day to day.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Questions about FMCSA compliance
The ones that come up before anyone signs anything.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is the US regulator overseeing commercial trucking safety, including hours-of-service rules that limit how long a driver can be on duty. Compliance means the system enforcing those limits accurately and keeping the records an inspector or auditor can check.
Fines, and in some cases a driver or vehicle taken out of service on the spot during a roadside inspection. The cost of non-compliance is immediate and operational, not just a paperwork problem discovered later.
The device records hours accurately, which is necessary but not sufficient. The system around it, how records are stored, how edits are logged, how a driver certifies a log, also has to meet the specific requirements an inspector checks against.
Yes. Cetus Pro, a client platform we built and operate, handles hours-of-service compliance across all 48 contiguous US states, covering exactly this requirement in production.
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