Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy Yanks 133 Illegal Electronic Logging Devices from Trucking Registry to Protect American Truckers, Fight Fraud
Historic crackdown is the largest ELD revocation in FMCSA history
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy today announced the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) pulled 133 illegal Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) from the agency’s Registered Devices List in its latest effort to stop fraud, protect American truckers, and safeguard America’s roads. This historic crackdown targeted illegal logging devices used by fraudsters to cheat safety rules, bypass mandated rest periods, and undercut trucker wages. The use of these illegal logging devices can be directly sourced to deadly crashes across America.
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The instances of fraud and abuse were severe and endangered thousands of Americans on our roads. Examples include (cases are anonymized to avoid compromising ongoing investigations):
- ELD Company A allowed carriers to completely bypass hours of service limits by calling a support line to manually wipe out driving time and fabricate rest periods while actively driving.
- ELD Company B was caught actively uploading fake logs during an active roadside inspection to cover up an overworked driver operating hours beyond the legal limit.
- ELD Company C logs showed drivers traveling at mathematically impossible speeds of up to 130 miles per hour to compress driving time.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are cracking down on rampant fraud on America’s roads. This latest crackdown – which required hundreds of man hours and extensive forensic investigations – will prevent criminals from cooking the books, sabotaging trucker wages, and endangering you and your family when you drive,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy. “From pulling thousands of illegal licenses to shutting down sham schools to launching our Freedom Haulers campaign, our message is simple: America’s roads are for American truckers. This administration will stop at nothing to protect the driving public.”
Federal hours-of-service limits prevent driver fatigue and save lives. When non-compliant or manipulated ELDs allow carriers to falsify driving logs, exhausted drivers remain behind the wheel far beyond safe, legal limits. They can also depress wages by allowing companies to offer cheaper rates.
Today’s action removes 121 agency-revoked devices and 12 voluntary self-revocations that failed to meet the Trump Administration’s standards of readiness.
“Motor carriers must have confidence that every device on FMCSA’s public registry is compliant, secure, and actively supported,” said FMCSA Administrator Derek D. Barrs. "We are removing noncompliant and fraudulent devices to close loopholes that can be exploited to evade oversight, avoid revocation, bypass vetting requirements, or undermine accurate hours-of-service records. This action protects law-abiding carriers and drivers and makes clear that FMCSA will not tolerate devices that compromise the integrity of the ELD system.”
Since President Trump issued an Executive Order to restore integrity to the trucking industry in April 2025, Secretary Duffy and FMCSA have:
- Placed 34,000 drivers out of service who could not speak basic English or read road signs;
- Shut down nearly 10,000 driving schools; and
- Revoked more than 31,000 illegally issued licenses to unvetted foreign drivers.
Additional Information:
ELDs are used by truck drivers and carriers to record hours-of-service information. ELDs track driving time and other critical information, making it easier to accurately record, manage, and share required hours-of-service data. FMCSA maintains a public list of ELDs that providers have registered and self-certified as compliant with federal requirements.
Motor carriers have up to 60 days to replace the revoked ELDs with a compliant ELD. For more information on ELDs and to find a list of the revoked devices, visit FMCSA’s ELD website.
After 60 days, motor carriers who continue to use the revoked devices will be considered as operating without an ELD. Safety officials who encounter a driver using the revoked devices on or after November 24, 2026, should cite 395.8(a)(1) and place the driver out-of-service (OOS) in accordance with the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance OOS Criteria.
If the ELD provider corrects all identified deficiencies for its device, FMCSA will place the ELD back on the list of registered devices and inform the industry of the update.
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