Electronic logs a boon for trailer makers

South African truckers don't need shipping lanes to delay them, a crash on the N3 will do.

Implementation of electronic logging devices in the U.S. earlier in 2018 has made cheating a lot harder than drivers used to when they kept their hours on paper.

This has led a shortage of trailers as third-party logistics and full-service trucking firms now add drop-and-hook trailers to allow drivers to leave loaded trailers waiting for pickup along shipping lanes, and not waste their paid hours just sitting there.

“This is being done to make the current driver population more productive and to move goods as fast as possible in a demanding freight market,” said Don Ake, vice president of commercial vehicles at FTR Transportation Intelligence.