Compliance: ELD, DVIR & IFTA

The ELD reads engine data directly from the GO device to automatically record driving time, replacing the paper logbook a driver used to fill out by hand. A driver still manually indicates duty-status changes like going on-duty before driving, but the engine-tied driving-time record itself is much harder to falsify than a paper log or a basic e-log app, which is the entire point of the federal rule. The device is on FMCSA's registered list, which matters directly: an unregistered device is treated the same as having no ELD at all during a roadside inspection.

A Driver Vehicle Inspection Report (DVIR) is the pre- and post-trip inspection a driver has to complete when they find a defect that could affect safe operation. Doing it electronically means a flagged defect shows up in MyGeotab immediately, routed to whoever manages maintenance, rather than sitting on a paper form in a cab until someone happens to find it. Carriers have a matching obligation to repair anything safety-related before the vehicle goes back on the road and certify that repair, and an electronic workflow makes that certification trail auditable instead of easy to lose.

IFTA (the International Fuel Tax Agreement) requires a quarterly report showing miles driven and fuel purchased per jurisdiction. Reconstructing that by hand from odometer readings and fuel receipts is slow and error-prone. Because the platform already logs exactly when a vehicle crosses each jurisdiction boundary, the mileage half of that calculation becomes a query against real trip data instead of a research project, and it's the single biggest time-saver most fleets report once compliance moves onto the same platform as tracking.

ELD, DVIR, and IFTA are three separate regulatory requirements, but they're not three separate data problems: all three depend on knowing where a vehicle was, when, and what its engine was doing. Running them on the same GO device and the same MyGeotab login means a compliance issue, an HOS violation risk, an unresolved DVIR defect, a jurisdiction with unusually high mileage, shows up next to the operational data your dispatch and safety teams already check daily, instead of living in a separate system nobody opens until an audit forces the issue.