Hours-of-service compliance is about the driver's day: how long they have driven, how long they have been on duty, and whether the record of it is accurate. It sits next to the vehicle file in every conversation about fleet compliance and it is a different product, bought from different vendors, failing in different ways. This page explains what it requires and is explicit about where this site stops.
What the record has to show
A record of duty status covering the driver's day, in the prescribed form, showing time driving, on duty not driving, off duty and in a sleeper berth, and it has to be current and available. In practice, for most regulated operations, that record comes from a logging device connected to the engine rather than from paper, because manual logs are laborious and easy to challenge. The compliance question is not whether the driver worked lawful hours; it is whether the record proves it.
Why it cannot be a checklist
Everything else in fleet compliance is an event somebody records: a check, a defect, a repair, an inspection. Duty status is continuous, it changes without anybody choosing to write it down, and the thing that makes it trustworthy is that a machine captured it. That is a genuinely different product with hardware, certification and its own vendor market, and no amount of good record-keeping software substitutes for it.
Where this site stops, and why we say so
Walkvo does not record hours of service. It is not an ELD, it does not connect to an engine and it does not go in the cab. What it holds is the vehicle side: the inspection report, the defect and the repair certification. Fleets are sold combined platforms constantly, and the honest position is that we are one half of that platform and not the other; a compliance owner buying both from one vendor is making a convenience decision, not a compliance one.
Questions people ask about hos compliance
Do we need an ELD?
That depends on your operation and the exemptions that apply to it, which is a question for your policy and your counsel. What is generally true is that where the rules require a record of duty status, an electronic device is the practical way most fleets produce one.
Does Walkvo do hours of service?
No, and it is not on the roadmap. We keep the vehicle's inspection record. Hours of service is a hardware-backed product with its own certification, and pretending otherwise would be the worst kind of feature list.
Can hours-of-service and inspection records live in one place?
They can, in a large platform. Whether they should at your size is a different question: two focused products that export cleanly are usually cheaper and easier to replace than one system that does both adequately.