New Whitepaper Helps Truck Fleets Improve Driver Fitness, Controlled Substances & Alcohol BASICs
“BASICs – Improving Driver Fitness and Controlled Substances & Alcohol” details how the Driver Fitness and the Controlled Substances & Alcohol BASICs address regulatory requirements that often affect a driver prior to hiring and outside of commercial motor vehicle operations. These areas can quickly receive enforcement attention and trigger investigations when problems are found.
BlogPodcast #50: Why The Journey Toward Autonomous Trucks Is Taking Longer Than Planned
In 2014, the first announcements from truck manufacturers were made about plans to start offering fully autonomous trucks by 2025. With a little less than four years left before this deadline, it has become clear we’re not going to see trucks without drivers by then. Listen to this episode of the “Eyes on the Road” trucking podcast as host Evan Lockridge speaks with trucking journalist Jack Roberts about why this has happened.
Blog, PodcastsHow Federal Trucking Regulations Become Law, Part 1
In part one, we compare regulations to other forms of government action – statutes, studies, pilot projects and guidance. We touch on sanctions that can come from violating regulations and how to contest citations. We share how to find what regulations the government intends to pursue and where to locate the regulatory proposals currently in play. And we look at the sources of proposed regulations, as well as the limitations on what any regulatory agency can do.
BlogHow Truckers Can Avoid Unsafe Drivers
These same lessons we learned in driver’s ed all those years ago also apply to the safe operation of a truck. Stay away from trouble, and alert authorities to potentially drunk, drugged or incapacitated drivers. Lessons every professional driver should know, and every motor carrier should reinforce.
BlogWhy FMCSA’s Definition of ‘Agricultural Commodity’ Should Matter to You
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has published an interim final rule on the definition of the terms “any agricultural commodity,” “livestock,” and “non-processed food,” for purposes of hours of service regulations. These new definitions clearly impact ag transport, but they also matter to motor carriers who do not haul agricultural and livestock products.
BlogNew Whitepaper Helps Truck Fleets Improve Unsafe Driving and Crash Indicator Scores
FMCSA regards the Unsafe Driving and the Crash Indicator BASICs, along with the Hours of Service Compliance BASIC, as the three most critical of the seven BASICs. “BASICs –Improving Unsafe Driving and Crash Indicator” focuses on these two BASICs and explains how the seven Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) work in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program.
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