Each driver has a single unique physical "driver card" which needs to be inserted into a tamper-proof recording device in the vehicle. Driving hours are recorded both on the driver card, and on the vehicle-bound recording device. Want to use two drivers in a shift? Well, you gotta put it on dual-driver mode and insert both cards. Good luck trying to explain where your ghost driver is when you get pulled over for a random check.
It seems ELD Rider is just a random Android app instead. No wonder people are committing fraud with it - there's no way to ensure the accuracy of that!
Physical access dominates, every single time.
In my line of work we use Scale Indicators that are calibrated by Weights & Measures Canada. Once the audit is completed the unit is sealed with a destructible seal and record of inspection is recorded. If that seal is ever tampered with by someone not authorized to do so there are big fines.
So yeah, it would be easy for us to snap those seals and drop custom programs into the indicators all day every day. There's also stupid-obvious methods to prevent tampering.
Hey here’s a YouTube video on it: https://youtu.be/xUJtqvYDnkg
And let’s not even discuss software exploits
The screws securing the sensitive parts of the terminal have holes through them where you thread the seal through several of them. Basically it is impossible to loosen the screws without breaking the seal. The entire device is a metal enclosure so the only way in is through the screws.
Yes, grandparent said tamper-proof instead of tamper-resistant or tamper-evident. So? It's obvious what they meant.
The only way you could avoid it is paying a flat salary. But the companies would never do that because then the drivers would go slowly and follow all the laws, cutting their profits. And besides, most truck drivers are owner/operators, so there is no one to pay them a salary.
Unless the government steps in. Have the government pay them for resting, so they make the same money either way. That's about the only way I can think of.
That doesn't make sense. Whether you delivered one load or two loads in 12 hours, you get paid the same. In addition, it incentivizes the idiots at load and unload to do their job as the trucker doesn't care if he sits as he gets paid the same.
"Per hour" is really the only thing that aligns the truck drivers with overall safety.
You still need these kinds of trackers as the trucking companies will then be incentivized to give drivers 12 hours to drive 2500 miles, but at least you won't have the truckers trying to subvert them, as well.