Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on Thursday removed 133 electronic logging devices from its registry Thursday in a crackdown aimed at stopping fraud and enforcing highway safety rules.
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the swept devices include 121 agency-revoked systems and 12 voluntary self-revocations.
The agency declined to name the devices citing ongoing investigations but pointed to instances of support systems that allowed carriers to manually wipe out driving time during active transit, automated uploading of fake logs during roadside inspections, and records showing speeds reaching mathematically impossible speeds (upwards of 130 mph, according to DOT) to artificially compress transit times.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are cracking down on rampant fraud on America’s roads,” Duffy said in a statement, emphasizing that the enforcement effort involved extensive forensic investigations. FMCSA this year has dropped almost 200 ELDs from its list of registered devices, although some have been added back to the list after regaining compliance.
In a video released Thursday as part of DOT’s announcement, Meiborg Inc.’s driver Francis “Bink” Buchanan phoned into his ELD’s call center and had his hours reset on the spot with FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs in the passenger seat. Buchanan is the same driver that just more than two weeks ago hosted editor Alex Lockie and had his drive clock reset outside of the Dekalb Police Station in Illinois.
Motor carriers using the affected devices have up to 60 days to replace them with compliant alternatives. Safety officials enforcing regulations on or after Nov. 24, 2026, are directed to cite non-compliant operators and place drivers out of service if they continue using revoked units. Providers that correct identified deficiencies may petition to have their devices reinstated.
Punting ELDs off the registry for non-compliance is a lot like tamping out forrest fires only for the blaze to reignite elsewhere. Research conducted by National Motor Freight Traffic Association uncovered that of then-approximately 1,050 ELDs registered with FMCSA, roughly three-quarters were “white labeled,” and appeared to share underlying hardware and software with other registered devices.
Thursday’s action coincides with broader administration safety initiatives in the trucking sector since April 2025, including placing 34,000 drivers out of service for language-proficiency issues, shutting down nearly 10,000 driving schools, and revoking more than 31,000 licenses issued to unvetted foreign drivers.
