So much for the ‘hope for leniency’: One owner-operator’s hours out-of-service experience in the ELD era

Tom Werner’s experience in Oregon, put out of service for a violation of the 70-hour cumulative on-duty limits — after a simple error in recording with his newly-in-use ELD. Werner neglected to log off-duty during a required berth period. Though he annotated the log as such, and location data in the ELD backed up his case, it wasn’t enough for the officer …