How it works
From the engine to the office, in three steps.
No paperwork changes hands. The truck talks to the app, the app keeps the log, and the office reads the same log the driver wrote.
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The plug reads the truck
The plug sits on your truck's diagnostic port and stays in step with the engine computer. It knows when the engine starts and stops, when the wheels are turning, how many miles the truck has covered, and how long the engine has run. That is the ground truth your log is built on.
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The app keeps the log
The app talks to the plug over Bluetooth. When the truck moves past 5 miles per hour, driving time starts on its own. When you stop, the app asks about your status instead of guessing. You tap your duty status, and the app writes the record with the time, the place, and the truck's own numbers attached.
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The office sees the same log
When your phone has a connection, the app passes its records to FWING's server. Your office opens the portal and sees your day exactly as you recorded it — the same hours, the same events. There is one log, not a cab copy and an office copy that disagree.
No signal, no problem
The log does not wait for coverage.
Dead zones are part of trucking. The app records everything on the device itself — every status change, every mile the plug reports — with no connection at all. When you roll back into coverage, the records sync on their own. Turn the phone off mid-day and back on, and your log is still whole.
A day with FWING ELD
What a normal day looks like.
- Start of day: you sign in to the app and do your inspection. The app knows the truck, the trailer, and your shipping papers when you enter them.
- Rolling: driving time starts by itself when the truck moves. Your four clocks count down on one screen, big enough to read with gloves on.
- Stops: park for five minutes and the app asks if you are still on duty. One tap answers. No tap, and it settles on on-duty, the safe answer.
- Rest: off duty and sleeper time are one tap each. Split your sleeper rest and the app pairs the two halves and works out what they give you.
- End of day: you look over the day's graph, fix anything that needs fixing — with the original kept — and sign the day with one tap.
- Inspection: if you are stopped, the roadside screen shows the officer today and the last seven days, and one tap sends the file.
If something goes wrong
The device tells you, plainly.
The app watches itself and the plug. If something the rules care about stops working — the connection to the engine, the position fix, the clock — a warning light shows on the home screen and the event is written into your record, the way the federal specification requires. What to do when that happens is spelled out on our support page.