Even with Trucking, Safety Begins at Home
We can improve our trucking workplace by being aware of safety obstacles and removing them once and for all. Safety does indeed begin at home. Here’s how and why.
Blog, SafetyPrePass Expansion Continues, Helping More Trucking Fleets Save Time and Money
The nation’s premiere weigh station bypass service, PrePass, continues expanding at a rapid pace, offering more opportunities for trucking companies to save time and money. So, what is fueling this growth?
BlogPodcast #33: As Marijuana Increasingly Becomes Legal Trucking Faces Big Challenges
As marijuana increasingly becomes legal for either recreational or medical use in more states, trucking fleets are seeing greater marijuana use by truck drivers despite a federal prohibition. This introduces a variety of safety concerns. Listen to this episode of the “Eyes on the Road” podcast, presented by PrePass, as host Evan Lockridge looks at how trucking is dealing with this safety challenge.
Blog, PodcastsUpdating FMCSA’s CSA Program: Data Deficiencies, Delayed Decisions
In late September, the U. S. Department of Transportation’s Inspector General (DOT IG) published a report on the progress made by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in overhauling the program it uses to assess motor carrier safety. That program, Compliance, Safety, Accountability, and specifically its analytical component, the Safety Management System, while an improvement over prior FMCSA safety practices, showed sufficient weaknesses in its nine years of life.
Blog, Regulations, SafetyNew Whitepaper Details Everything Truckers Need to Know About REAL ID and Upcoming License Deadlines
If your business takes you across international borders into Canada or Mexico, if you pick up or deliver at ports, and particularly if you serve secure government or military facilities, you will want and need a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license (or EDL) and a TWIC card. PrePass offers a guide to the ins and outs of these heightened identification and security credentials.
Blog, Business, RegulationsFMCSA Moving to Reduce Regulatory Costs for Trucking
When FMCSA proposes new regulations, it does so to further its mission of “reducing crashes, injuries and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.” But today regulators are also charged with reducing the burden of regulatory cost whenever possible, incorporating compliance, efficiency and flexibility, and avoiding duplicative regulations.
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