Trucking news and briefs for Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021:
apollo ELD by assured Techmatics was posted on Transport Canada’s website as a certified ELD on Sept. 1, bringing the total to four ELDs listed on the country’s ELD registry. apollo received its certification on Aug. 27 through the accredited body Commercial Driver Technology Inc., becoming the first U.S. ELD provider compliant with the Canadian mandate, the company says.
"We are extremely happy and proud to be among the first ELD providers certified in Canada,” said David Seijo, president of assured Techmatics. “It has been a challenging but a very interesting learning process for us. For nine months, the whole team's focus was to strategize and develop the ELD solution that would work flawlessly in both U.S. and Canada and pass all the 400 pages of certification testing procedures.”
The apollo ELD joins Hutch Systems’ Connect ELD, Diesel Tech Industries’ Guardian ELOG DTIE02, and Pedigree Technologies’ Cab-Mate One as certified ELDs for Canada’s ELD mandate.
The Canadian ELD mandate took effect June 12, 2021, but the rule is not being enforced until June 2022.
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., (CCJ Top 250, No. 10) Tuesday provided an update to its third-quarter 2021, which is seeing an explosion in revenue and load demand.
Revenue per day, the company said, increased 29.1% as compared to August 2020 due to a 10.9% increase in LTL tons per day and an increase in LTL revenue per hundredweight. The change in LTL tons per day was attributable to a 17.3% increase in LTL shipments per day that was partially offset by a 5.5% decrease in LTL weight per shipment. For the quarter-to-date period, LTL revenue per hundredweight and LTL revenue per hundredweight, excluding fuel surcharges, increased 15.5% and 9.9%, respectively, as compared to the same period last year.
