Hours of Service (continued)
Automatic Duty Status Changes
If the BIT ELD detects vehicle movement over 5 MPH and if your current duty status is not set to
“Driving” the app will automatically set your status to driving. This is a feature required by the FMCSA
ELD Mandate.
If the BIT ELD detects that the vehicle has stopped for 5 minutes and your duty status is still set to
“Driving” the app will prompt you to see if you are still driving. If you select “No” you will be taken to
the “Add Duty Status” screen to change your duty status. If there is no response from you within one
minute, the app will automatically change your duty status to “On Duty Not Driving”.
To help maximize your available drive time, the 6 minutes of non-motion time will be taken off the
“Driving” duty status and added to the “On Duty Not Driving” duty status.
The BIT ELD app will only change your duty status from “Driving”
to "On Duty Not Driving"
after the
6-minute interval described
above. If you turn off your vehicle or disconnect from the ELD by moving
outside of bluetooth range before the 6-minute interval, you will remain set to “Driving”.
Duty Status and Logging Out
It is important to know that when you close or log out of the BIT ELD app you will remain in the last
set duty status. If you are set to an in-motion status such as “Driving”, “Personal Conveyance”, or
“Yard Move”, your available hours will be incorrect the next time you log into the app. You will have
to add a new duty status to your logs and set the start time to when you stopped your last duty
status.
To help prevent this from happening, the BIT ELD app will send a notification if the app is closed and
you are set to an in-motion duty status.
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