Motive Restricted Highway’s Data Access Over a Payment Demand

Highway notified its customers this week in an email communication, that Motive had imposed new limits on the integration between the two platforms, telling compliance leaders that the electronic logging device provider had begun restricting its application programming interface connection and had indicated Highway would need to compensate it for access to carrier data. The change took effect immediately, according to the notice. Highway’s stated position is that it does not charge carriers for its services and does not intend to begin charging them in order to preserve an ELD connection. The company said the practical result is that Motive ELD data now refreshes less frequently inside its platform. The downstream effects Highway described are specific.