One in five registered devices is a unit another company also sells under its own name, and the registry gives a carrier no way to see it.
195 of the 938 devices on the FMCSA registered list, 20.8%, are a hardware model that at least one other company also lists under its own name. 160 of the 626 companies on that list are selling somebody else's hardware with their badge on it. The largest single case is one unit carrying 28 different brand names.
The short version. A carrier comparing five ELD vendors reasonably assumes it is comparing five products. On the registered list that assumption does not hold. One hardware unit, the Pacific Track PT30, appears under 28 different company names. Its manufacturer says so openly: the PT30 is, in Pacific Track's own words, integrated with dozens of third-party white label applications.
None of that is hidden and none of it is wrongdoing. It is simply invisible at the point where a carrier makes the decision, because FMCSA publishes the brand and not the platform underneath it.
Group every registered device by the hardware model its vendor filed, discard generic entries like "Android & iOS" that describe an operating system rather than a product, and 34 model groups are left that more than one company currently shares. Together they account for 195 live certifications. The largest groups:
The pattern in the middle of that list is worth a second look. ERS, SRS, ARS, TRS, CRS, BRS, DRS and RRS are all model codes of the same shape, and in each case the leading letter matches the first letter of the reselling company: Samurai ELD files SRS, Torch ELD files TRS. That is one platform issuing a per-reseller model code, and it means the same underlying system is on the list dozens of times under names that look unrelated.
Each of these appears on the FMCSA registered list today with the Pacific Track PT30 as its filed hardware model. Names link to that company's entries on our copy of the registry.
38 of those model groups contain both live certifications and removed ones. Across them, 169 devices are registered today on hardware that has also been removed from the list under a different company's name, against 72 such removals.
Read that carefully, because the obvious reading is wrong. It does not mean those live devices are non-compliant, and it is not a warning about the companies listed above. A certification belongs to the vendor who filed it. When FMCSA removes one company's device, it has ruled on that company's filing, not on the hardware in general, and every other vendor's certification stands entirely on its own.
What it does show is the shape of the market. The PT30 group alone holds 48 live certifications across 28 firms and 13 removed ones across 10. A carrier who reacts to a revocation notice by switching to another brand may well end up holding the same hardware, which is a reasonable outcome if the original problem was the vendor's software or its paperwork, and no help at all if it was not. The list does not let you tell which.
Both of our earlier findings pages tell you to look up your ELD Identifier and model rather than your brand. That advice is right, and while checking this data we found the precise limit of it.
Of 1065 distinct identifiers across the registered and removed lists, 23 are used by more than one company. Add the model number and that falls to 6. Add the device name and 1 case remains.
So the two-part check we published holds for 99.5% of filings, and adding the device name closes almost all of the rest. The worst single identifier is WLI001, filed by 15 different companies, all of them resellers of one platform. Searching that string alone returns a wall of unrelated brands:
Every one of these filed the same identifier. The platform underneath them is Wireless Links' DriverLog, whose BlueLink and Piccolo hardware appears in the model column of most of these rows under each reseller's own product name.
One case stays ambiguous even with all three parts: MiX ELD Driver Logs appears under both Trimble and MiX Telematics. That is not a data error. Those two businesses combined their transportation telematics operations, so for a period the same product legitimately sat under both names.
The useful consequence is not alarm, it is a better question. If two quotes are for the same hardware, then the hardware is not what you are choosing between, and the differences that remain are the ones worth interrogating: who answers the phone at 2am, how long the logs are retained and whether you can export them, what happens to your records if the vendor leaves the registry, and how the contract ends.
That last one is not hypothetical. 140 companies that have been on this registry no longer have a single device on it, and a reseller with no hardware of its own is a thinner thing to be owed your compliance records by than the platform underneath it. Ask which entity actually holds your data.
For an owner-operator the cost side of that decision runs through the business return rather than the truck, since the device, the subscription and the replacement when it comes are all deductible operating expenses: our sister site covers how deductions are grouped by profession for people filing on their own trade.
Identifiers are shared across companies, so the identifier, the model and the company have to agree. This checks all three at once.
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Claim or correct your entryGroupings are computed from the FMCSA registered ELD list and removed ELD list, retrieved 2026-08-31, and recomputed on every rebuild. Devices are grouped by the hardware model string the vendor itself filed.
Not all of the evidence on this page is the same strength, and it should not be presented as if it were. The PT30 group is confirmed: it is a named part from a named manufacturer, Pacific Track, whose own product page states the unit is integrated with dozens of third-party white label applications. The X-RS family is inferred from the shape of the codes and the match between each code's leading letter and its reseller's name, which is strong but is our reading rather than a vendor's statement. Generic strings such as "Android & iOS" describe an operating system rather than a product and are excluded from every count here rather than treated as weak evidence.
What this page does not do. It does not rank ELDs, has tested none of them, and makes no claim that any device listed here is non-compliant, poorly made or a bad choice. White-labelling is a normal and legal way to bring a product to market, used across most hardware industries. The finding is about what the registry lets a carrier see, not about the character of anyone on it.
195 of 938 live devices on shared hardware · 160 companies · retrieved 2026-08-31 · the whole vendor field
FreightProbe. "One In Five Registered ELDs Is Hardware Another Company Also Sells." Computed from the FMCSA registered and removed ELD lists, retrieved 2026-08-31. https://freightprobe.com/eld-white-label-hardware
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.