For any driver who has dug through a cluttered glovebox during a roadside stop looking for a manual nobody reads, this is a genuine quality-of-life change. Dropping the printed ELD manual requirement removes what has effectively been a paperwork citation waiting to happen — inspectors could ding you for a missing document even when your device was working and your logs were clean. That said, don't read this as FMCSA going soft on ELD accountability. There's active congressional interest in hardening who can actually touch that data — a pending bill specifically targets foreign entities in a position to alter ELD records [1]. Paperwork relief and device integrity are two separate conversations, and the second appears to be heating up even as the first cools down. This fits a broader deregulatory pattern worth paying attention to. FMCSA also recently cut the requirement for CDL holders to self-report traffic convictions to their home state [2]. Whether these are isolated housekeeping moves or part of a sustained push to trim administrative burden is worth watching, especially as carriers calibrate their compliance programs around what inspectors are actually scrutinizing at roadside — because the things that did get you cited yesterday may not be the things that get you cited tomorrow. — sources — Story: www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-drops-rule-re… Related: [1] landline.media/bill-aims-to-crack-down-on-for… [2] www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-eliminates-cd… [3] www.truckingdive.com/news/swift-transportatio…