Picking an ELD for one truck is about the driver. Picking one for a fleet of 5 to 50 is about the person in the office who has to keep every one of those trucks compliant. Here's what actually matters at fleet scale.
For an owner-operator, an ELD just has to log one driver's hours cleanly. For a small fleet, the logs are only half the job. The other half is the back-office view — one screen where you can see who's about to run out of hours, which trucks have open violations, and whose logs need certifying. If that view is missing or clunky, you'll spend your week chasing drivers one phone call at a time. At fleet scale, the dashboard is the product.
Fleet pricing is where small differences turn into real money. A plan that's $8 more per truck per month costs an extra $2,880 a year across a 30-truck fleet. So compare the all-in cost per truck over a few years — hardware, monthly subscription, and any per-driver add-ons — the same way you would for a single truck. Our breakdowns of how much an ELD really costs and the best cheap ELD options walk through the fine print to check before you sign anything for the whole fleet.
The two most common: signing a long multi-year contract for every truck before testing the system on a few, and mixing ELD brands as the fleet grows. A long lock-in hurts far more when it covers 25 trucks than one. And running two or three different ELDs means two or three logins, bills, and support lines — more admin, not less. Standardize on one system you've actually tried first.
Eagleye ELD is built around a single fleet dashboard: every truck's hours, violations, and unidentified driving in one live view, with self-install hardware your drivers set up themselves. You can start for $1, there's no long lock-in contract, and pricing is per truck with no premium-brand markup. It scales cleanly from your first few trucks up through 50 without changing systems — the same way we cover owner-operators just starting out.
Put your whole fleet on one dashboard — start for $1 →A single dashboard that shows every truck's hours and violations at a glance, easy self-install hardware, per-truck pricing with no long lock-in, and support you can actually reach. For a 5-50 truck fleet, the back-office view matters as much as the in-cab logs.
Most ELD plans run roughly $15 to $40 per truck per month. Across a fleet that difference multiplies fast, so compare the all-in cost per truck — hardware plus every monthly and per-driver charge — over a few years, not just the sticker price.
You aren't legally required to use one brand, but running a single system across the fleet means one login, one bill, one place to check compliance, and one support line. Mixing providers usually creates more admin work than it saves.