We think that the jury is still out on electronic driver logs and electronic on-board recorders. We do see a lot of companies really liking the technology because it really helps their drivers be more efficient with their time – especially new drivers who need to learn how to do a paper log; they don’t have to do that. They can come in and in just a few short hours they can understand completely how to do their logs over the computer because the computer does the hard parts of the log for them.

It truly replaces the paper log because it’s an analogy to paper – you still see the same graphs that drivers and law enforcement officials are use to seeing on a paper log. The federal government, the FMCSA, has strict requirements of what you have to do to have an electronic on-board recorder.

Drivers really seem to be appreciating the warning a half hour or an hour before their out of drive time and they need to pull over. Prior to electronic on-board recorders that just wasn’t possible.

We’ve been pleasantly surprised to see that trucking companies, even without a mandate from the federal government, are starting to roll it out. They’re seeing the benefit in their drivers performing to the letter of the law; they’re seeing safety departments having to worry less about violations; they’re seeing accidents being reduced, they’re seeing accidents not being caused by violations; they’re seeing accident reconstruction and post-accident investigations becoming much easier; they’re seeing data retention savings as the paper logs are now being store in electronic databases, so it’s interesting to us that even without that federal mandate I mentioned earlier, so many large trucking companies are highly interested in electronic driver logs.