LAS VEGAS. Priced at $399.99 per unit, with a basic compliance plan starting at $24.99 per month, Rand McNally believes its developed a small “low cost” electronic logging device (ELD) package called the DC 200 mainly for small- to medium-sized fleets, though Ravi Kodavarti, the firm’s director of product management, stressed that any size fleet can deploy it.
“It comes down to taking the pain away from ELD compliance,” he explained to Fleet Owner during press conference here at the American Trucking Associations (ATA) annual conference.
“We want to continue making things easy to use; to provide intuitive interfaces for drivers,” he added. “It’s not complicated; the DC 200 requires a one-cable install and a simple app download to use.”
Details regarding the new DC 200 include:
The DC 200 is 5-in. long, design to sit on a truck’s dash and plug into a truck’s J-Bus diagnostic port via a single Y cable. The device works with both 6- and 9-pin, type 1 and type 2 ports.
The DC 200 can be used in conjunction with Rand McNally’s ELD 50, released about six months ago, with provides Bluetooth “plug-and-play” for owner-operators so they can be connected into the ELD “back office” of the fleets they work for.
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