Freight Book vs ELD Driver App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Freight Book
This app helps truck drivers manage their trips, providing load information, GPS tracking, and audible instructions for pickups and deliveries. Drivers can share trip progress and history effortlessly, eliminating the need for manual updates to stakeholders.
- Create and manage trips
- GPS tracking for progress
- Audible pickup/delivery instructions
- Share trip history
- Load information
- Substantiate detention claims
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Freight Book Inc offers an effortless way for all truck drivers to create their own trips, track their location and progress, view their trip history, and even share their the trip history! Now drivers can hear audible helpful instructions as they arrive to the pickup, delivery. This app allows you to put the phone down and let voice instructions guide you in. No more calling shippers, brokers and consignees with updates on your location. Simply share your link with them and let the app do the check ins. -Trips- **Freight Book provides all of the load information you need to safely and accurately complete your Frieght Book load! **You can better keep track of trips and safely hear instructions: When you arrive at your pre-defined pickup, delivery will read you verbal instructions so you do not have to look at your phone. No more fumbling with your phone while you are driving. Arrive at your location and hear your instructions! -GPS Tracking- ** Freight Book allows you to easily track your trips progress and update load stakeholders with no effort on your part. ** You can quickly enable or disable GPS through the location setting! ** Freight Book provides you with the data to help you substantiate driver detention claims against shippers and consignees and to use GPS to prove on time delivery for guaranteed shipments! -My Trip Button- ** You can easily view and share your trip with anyone with a touch of a button!
ELD Driver App
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FMCSA and DOT compliant and fully functional ELD. Easy to use for fleets, owner-operators and drivers. -60h/7days or 70h/8days rules -34h week restart with latest suspension of two periods 1-5am -11h daily -14h on-duty (daily) -Sleeper berth -Personal conveyance -30 minutes break -Location recording for engine on and off, and every 60 minutes if moving -Mobile device permits duty status changes only when the vehicle is at rest -Warns driver, visually and/or audibly of any malfunction -When the truck is stationary for 5 minutes or more, it will default to on-duty not driving and the driver must enter the proper status -The device (ELD) performs self-test, as well as a self-test at any point upon request of an authorized safety assurance official -Able to send ELD data to DOT office during inspection as required by FMCSA
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ELD Driver App at monthly against Freight Book's every 14 months. Freight Book's advantage is iOS requirement (13.2 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Freight Book ships an update every 14 months, ELD Driver App monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Freight Book | ELD Driver App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Freight Book, Inc | Sahara ELD LLC |
In-app purchases
Freight Book
No in-app purchases
ELD Driver App
No in-app purchases
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