Federal Court Upholds ELDs

A federal mandate for almost all US truck drivers to use electronic logging devices (ELDs) by December 18, 2017 was recently challenged in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The mandate was upheld unanimously by the Court, in a decision made in October. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) brought the challenge of this mandate…

Highway Fatalities Increased in 2015

According to recently released data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), highway fatalities rose by 7.2 percent in 2015. This is the largest year-over-year increase since 1966, when fatalities rose by 8.1 percent. The NHTSA largely attributed the sharp increase in fatalities to lower gas prices and increased job growth—both of which have…

Transportation and Cyber Risk

As Electronic Logging Devices become more prevalent, and soon mandatory for some, is your business opening up to additional risk? The information gathered from an electronic logging device is as vulnerable as the other data collected and used on your computer or smart phone. If you use a computer or a smart phone then you…

Change Dropbox Password Now!

Do you use Dropbox? And what are you storing there? Journalists at Motherboard reported that they obtained documents which show that more than 68 million users were affected by the data breach at Dropbox—one of the world’s largest file-hosting companies. The information contained in the documents has since been identified as authentic by officials at…