79 ELDs have left the registered list since January 2025. That is a running total, and only your own identifier can put you out of service

What the FMCSA notice actually says

Seventy-nine is a cumulative count, not a violation. In the twelve-device bulletin FMCSA said that 79 devices had come off the list since January 2025. You get that figure here without revisiting the July 20 grace calculation.

The year opened with the six-device list on January 8, then came HERO, the nine, the fourteen, the ten, the twelve and the five, each on its own calendar. The 79 is the sum of them, while your own serial number decides whether you are affected. If your logger is still registered, that total describes the industry and not a citation against you.

It helps when a broker says "FMCSA banned ELDs." What the agency removed was non-compliant identifiers under Appendix A, 79 so far. The live registered list is the authority. Each removal has its own 60-day deadline, and 79 is not one out-of-service date.

Buy from the list, not from the ad. A yearly tally cannot put you out of service; only your own identifier can.

We hold leased and owner-operator devices to the same list. A clone in a leased windshield is still a clone problem, whatever the rest of the fleet runs. The 79 never turns into a fuel surcharge.

What it means for next week's dispatch

We check the list, and we do not pass 79 along as a surcharge. The twelve-device grace calendar for July 20, 2026 holds the deadline details this article leaves out.

Earlier entries are January's six, HERO and July's ten. The live list is at eld.fmcsa.dot.gov/List.

For owner-operators, the logger is part of onboarding. Dispatch verifies the identifier on the windshield, not a yearly-total line in a broker's email.

Call +1 (224) 877-0350 with the device name. Seventy-nine is the total; your box is the real question.

Where Royser stands

We verify the identifier. We do not read 79 as a ban on electronic logs, and we will not build a surcharge from an annual count.

No single out-of-service date covers all 79. Every bulletin carries its own 60 days. Leased and owner-operator devices still get checked.

Buy from the list, not the ad. Call +1 (224) 877-0350 and a person will answer. Your serial number decides.