Most of them did not go out of business, and for the carrier still running the box that changes nothing at all.
Of the 766 companies that have ever appeared on the FMCSA ELD registry, 140 have nothing on it today. They took 239 device certifications with them. That is 62.2% of every removal FMCSA has ever published, and it is not what most carriers picture when a device leaves the list.
The short version. When a device disappears from the registered list, the usual assumption is a product refresh: an old model retired, a new one certified. For 37.8% of removals that is exactly right. For the other 62.2%, the company behind the device has nothing registered at all any more.
The difference matters for one reason. A vendor that is still certifying devices can fix whatever FMCSA flagged and get relisted. A vendor with nothing left on the registry has nobody assigned to do that, and your 60-day clock runs the same either way.
FMCSA's removed-device list is a list of devices. It records what left and when. It does not record what happened to the company that certified it, because that is not FMCSA's job. Read against the registered list, though, every removal falls into one of two buckets, and there is no judgement call in sorting them: either the company still has something registered, or it does not.
The second bar is the larger one. That is the finding, and it is the opposite of the intuition: the typical removal on that list is not a manufacturer tidying up an old SKU, it is the last certification a company had.
It is tempting to read 140 vanished companies as 140 failures. That reading is wrong, and the largest names on the list prove it. Trimble, ORBCOMM, Linxup, Navistar and GPS Trackit all appear here with no registered ELD, and all of them are operating businesses selling fleet technology today. What ended was a certification, not a company.
There are ordinary reasons for that. A telematics firm can decide ELD compliance is not the product it wants to carry and hand its customers to a partner. A hardware line can be acquired and recertified under the buyer's name, which appears in this data as one company leaving and another growing. A vendor can simply stop renewing. None of that is a scandal, and none of it is visible in the data, which is exactly why this page does not speculate about any individual company's reason.
Here is the part that survives all of those explanations. Whatever the reason, there is no longer a registered device with that company's name on it. If yours is the truck still running the box, the reason it left the list changes nothing about what happens at a scale house.
Just over 66% of all removals are marked self-revoked: the manufacturer withdrew the device rather than FMCSA pulling it. The word reads like a softer outcome, and for the vendor it is. For the carrier it is not a softer outcome at all. FMCSA applies the same 60-day replacement window to a self-revoked device as to one it revoked itself, and after that window a driver running either one is cited under 49 CFR 395.8(a)(1) for no record of duty status and can be placed out of service.
So the status column describes the vendor's posture and tells you nothing about your exposure. There is one exception, and it runs in the direction people do not expect: if a company is still certifying devices, a fixed deficiency can put the old device back on the registered list. Among the 140 companies here, there is no product team left to fix anything. The removal is the end state.
Each company is counted in the year of its final removal, which is the point it stopped having anything on the registered list. 1 company has no date published and is not charted.
The mandate's first full years are quiet, then 2023 jumps to 29. The last two rows are the ones worth sitting with: 34 companies stopped being registered in 2025, and 35 have already stopped in 2026, with four months of the year still to run. 2026's bar is hatched because it is incomplete, not because it is an estimate.
One caveat, and it cuts against the trend rather than for it: this counts the record FMCSA publishes today. If the agency has ever pruned old entries, early years would be undercounted and the climb would look steeper than it was. We hold a dated snapshot of both lists from 2026-08-31 onward specifically so future versions of this page can measure change instead of inferring it.
Every company below has zero devices on the registered list as of 2026-08-31. Counts are the devices each one had certified. Company names link to their entries on our copy of the removal record.
Companies marked still trading were checked by hand on 2026-08-31 and are operating businesses. The absence of that mark means we did not verify either way, not that a company has closed. All 385 removals.
72% of the 140 companies here only ever certified a single device. When it went, the company went with it.
It would be easy to read that as a warning about small vendors, and the data does not support it. Firms that only ever certified one device removed it at a rate of 18.6%. The rate across every company that has ever been on the registry is 18.3%. Those are the same number. Single-product vendors are not failing more often than anyone else.
What differs is not the failure rate, it is what the removal looks like afterwards. A company with nine devices that retires one still appears on the registered list, and a carrier checking by brand sees nothing wrong. A company with one device that retires it disappears completely. The same event produces an obvious signal at one end of the market and a silent one at the other, which is why this page and the companies that stayed and retired more than they list are two halves of one problem rather than two topics.
The shape is worth knowing because it is the common case. 477 of the 626 companies on the registered list today certify exactly one device, which is 76% of them. For those carriers there is no second product to fall back to. At the other end, 36 firms currently maintain four or more, and 26 of those have never had a single device removed:
This is not a recommendation and not a ranking. We have not tested any of these devices. A clean removal record means a company has not withdrawn or lost a certification; it does not mean the product is good, well supported, or right for your fleet, and a newer vendor has a clean record for the trivial reason that it has not been here long. The registry publishes no registration dates, so tenure cannot be computed from it at all.
That last step is the one that turns an annoyance into a problem. Replacing hardware is a purchase order. Losing the record of duty status behind it is an audit finding, and for an owner-operator the replacement is a deductible business expense in the year you buy it, which is worth handling deliberately rather than in a hurry: our sister site covers how pass-through deductions apply to owner-operator income and what self-employed filers use to track equipment purchases.
If the company behind your device is one of the 140 here, this tells you immediately whether the device itself is still on the list.
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Claim or correct your entryEvery count is computed from the FMCSA registered ELD list and removed ELD list, retrieved 2026-08-31, and recomputed on every rebuild so the prose and the figures cannot drift apart. The 60-day window, the reversion to paper logs, the 395.8(a)(1) citation and the out-of-service consequence are FMCSA's own, stated in its removal announcements.
Company names are normalised here, and that is a deliberate difference from our other pages. FMCSA publishes the same firm under more than one string, and Azuga and Azuga, Inc. are the clearest case. Grouping by the raw string would put a live, trading company into a list of companies that have left the registry, which would be false rather than merely imprecise. Matching ignores punctuation and common suffixes such as Inc, LLC and Technologies. Across the registry that collapses 630 published names to 626 firms.
A measurement we ran and threw away. We tested whether larger vendors churn devices harder, and the numbers looked strong: a removal rate climbing from 18.7% to 61.2% across size bands. It does not survive inspection. Firms were being sorted into size bands using their total certifications ever, which includes the removals being measured, so a company could land in the largest band because it removed devices and then be reported as removing a lot. Four of the nine firms in that top band have no live devices at all. Grouped by surviving size instead, the trend disappears. We are recording it here because a rate whose denominator contains its own numerator is a mistake worth naming, not hiding.
Two limits. One revoked device is published with its manufacturer field set to None, so it belongs to no company and is excluded from company counts while remaining in the 385 device total. And whether a company still trades is not in FMCSA's data and cannot be inferred from it; the 5 marked above were checked individually, and the rest carry no claim in either direction.
766 companies ever registered · 626 today · 140 with nothing left · retrieved 2026-08-31 · the companies that stayed but retired more than they list
FreightProbe. "140 ELD Companies Have No Registered Device Left." Computed from the FMCSA registered and removed ELD lists, retrieved 2026-08-31. https://freightprobe.com/eld-companies-no-longer-registered
Figures on this page are recomputed from source on every rebuild. If you are quoting a number, quote the retrieval date with it, because this dataset changes weekly.