Works with no signal
In a dead zone a driver can still open ClearRoad and record the day's hours. The entry is held on the phone, checked against their cycle using history already downloaded, and sent the moment service comes back.
Exempt from the ELD.
Not exempt from the record.
If your drivers stay local in British Columbia, you don’t need an electronic logging device. You do still owe an hours-of-service record for every driver, for every day they are on duty, kept six months with the paperwork behind it. The obligation didn’t go away when the ELD mandate passed you by. It moved from the driver to you.
“Can you show me last Tuesday for one of your drivers? What cycle he’s on, what time he started, what time he finished, and his total hours on duty.”
Most carriers can’t answer that in five minutes, and plenty can’t answer it at all. Not because anyone is careless — because nobody ever built them a way to do it. Every hours-of-service product on the market is aimed at drivers who need a daily logbook. Yours don’t. That gap is what ClearRoad is for.
Before anything else
Is this actually you?
ClearRoad is not for every carrier, and it is worth two minutes to find out before either of us spends any more time.
- Your trucks are B.C.-plated and stay inside British Columbia.
- They are non-passenger, and over 11,795 kg licensed gross vehicle weight.
- Your drivers stay within 160 km of the home terminal and return there each day.
- Your drivers get 10 consecutive hours off between shifts.
Yes to all four? You are in the lane, and you owe the daily record under MVAR s.37.28.
Under 11,795 kg and staying inside B.C.? Then you are exempt from hours of service altogether and you don’t need any of this. I would rather tell you that on a phone call than sell you something you have no use for.
What it does
Built for how local trucking actually runs
Counts the cycle for you
Cycle 1 or Cycle 2 hours are tracked as the driver works, with a warning before a limit is reached rather than a discovery afterwards.
Pre-trip and post-trip built in
Signed inspection reports carrying the plate, the unit and trailer, the date, and either the defects found or a no-defect statement.
Paperwork stays with the record
Fuel, maintenance, repair and defect evidence is timestamped and stays attached to the right driver and the right service day.
And when someone asks for six months of records — an officer, an auditor, a lawyer after a collision — it comes out as one export you can hand over.
Straight about the limits
What ClearRoad is not
A compliance tool that oversells itself is worse than no tool, because you find out where the edges were on the day it matters. Here are ClearRoad’s.
It is not an electronic logging device.
An ELD is for drivers who need a daily log. Yours don't - that is the whole reason you are exempt. ClearRoad produces the record the regulation asks you for, which is a different document.
It does not take on your legal duty.
ClearRoad produces and retains the record, warns before limits, and gives you something to hand over. Complying with the regulation stays yours. Any product that tells you otherwise is selling you a problem.
It doesn't pretend about days outside local scope.
If a driver goes beyond 160 km, that day isn't local hours at all. ClearRoad marks it as outside scope and tells the driver to log it the way they normally would, rather than quietly recording something that isn't true.
Who built it
“I do health and safety for a living. I built ClearRoad because my own clients couldn’t produce these records and there was nothing on the market for them. I’m not a software company — I’m the safety person who got tired of watching good carriers carry a risk they didn’t know they had.”
Mandip Singh SondhMind to Hand Safety · Surrey, B.C.
Tell me about your operation
If those four checks describe your trucks, I’d like to hear from you. If they don’t, get in touch anyway and I’ll point you at what you actually need.
mandip@clearroadhos.ca