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PrePass Expands Florida Agriculture Inspection Station Bypass Locations
PrePass Safety Alliance, the provider of PrePass bypass services, partnered with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to offer PrePass Ag at an additional 30 sites. This service allows commercial carriers that do not haul dedicated agricultural cargo to bypass select agricultural inspection stations in Florida in the same way they bypass PrePass equipped weigh stations.
BlogPrePass Safety Alliance Adds Over 1,000 New Roadway Safety ALERTS
To make trucks drivers aware of road hazards, work zones, parking spaces, and more, PrePass Safety Alliance recently completed work on more than 1,000 new PrePass ALERTS™. Carriers across the country now benefit from nearly 1,400 PrePass ALERTS thatappear in-cab on the PrePass MOTION weigh station bypass application.
Press ReleasePilot Program Would Study Pausing 14-Hour Truck Driving Window
The “Split Duty Period Pilot Program”would allow participating drivers to pause their regular 14-hour on-duty period, one time, from 30 minutes to three hours. During that pause, drivers would be completely off-duty. After the drivers complete their work shift, they must take 10 consecutive hours off-duty. Cumulative maximums for seven/eight days of on-duty time would still apply.
Blog, RegulationsFMCSA Proposes to Study Truck Safety Metrics to Move “Beyond Compliance”
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration currently only considers carrier safety mistakes when evaluating a fleet’s safety performance. This may change as the FMCSA proposes to study whether to also consider other factors including carrier efforts to improve safety.
Blog, RegulationsTrucking Lessons from Broderick Crawford and “Highway Patrol”
Legislators and regulators usually try to craft fair and workable safety rules. Achieving “one-size-fits-all,” though, is not possible in the highly diverse world of trucking. At times it can require true safety specialists – motor carriers and commercial vehicle law enforcement – to work together on alternative solutions.
Blog, SafetyPodcast #45: How to Spend Less Money on Truck Tolls
Listen to this episode of the “Eyes on the Road” trucking podcast as host Evan Lockridge talks with Drew Anderson with PrePass about how you can spend less money on truck tolls. They discuss how the many different ways trucks can be incorrectly charged and how to avoid expensive fees for toll violations.
Blog, PodcastsExperts Reveal Best Practices for Truck Driver Pre-Employment Screening
How do hiring experts at motor carriers rate best practices for truck driver pre-employment screening? The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute asked that question in an online survey of 40 safety-conscious managers from various types of commercial vehicle operations. While VTTI notes that a small sample cannot be applied across the commercial motor vehicle industry, the results are instructive, with recent events suggesting that one practice may rise in importance.
BlogTake Control of Your Truck Fleet’s Toll Costs
Watch this PrePass webinar, “How to Take Control of Fleet Toll Costs,” and learn how you can take some simple steps to help reduce and manage tolling costs immediately and in the future. Hear from two PrePass experts, Jarrod Del Prado, senior director of operations, and Drew Anderson, INFORM program manager. They examine toll agency structures and the history of tolling. More importantly, they look at recent tolling trends and how these trends can affect your operation.
Blog, TechnologyTruck Driver Health: A Highway Safety Risk?
In this year of COVID-19, medical conditions dominate front-page headlines. But it is in the back pages of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s website where you will find evidence that medical conditions and their treatment are directly linked to highway safety. In June 2020, FMCSA published a study by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, “Commercial Driver Safety Risk Factors,” tracking nearly 21,000 truck drivers for three years.
BlogPrePass Safety Alliance Adds Locations on Key Routes, Grows Florida Agriculture Sites
PrePass-approved carriers now enjoy even more opportunities to save time, money and fuel. In the past six months, PrePass Safety Alliance equipped an additional 30 agricultural inspection sites and four weigh stations in Texas, Louisiana and Montana that are now eligible for pre-clearance and bypass services.
Press ReleaseLaw Enforcement Events Create Awareness for Highway and Truck Safety
The next time you read about an upcoming safety event like Operation Safe Driver, Operation Airbrake, International Roadcheck or many others like them, tell your team about the common ground shared by law enforcement and trucking. And feel free to stop by an event site and help us celebrate highway safety.
Blog, SafetyNew Whitepaper Explains How to Get Your Truck Tolling Costs Under Control
More than 340 toll facilities operate in the U.S., generating billions of dollars every year. Much of this toll revenue comes from truck fleets, which have seen toll rates jump dramatically over the past decade. At the same time, motor carriers often enjoy less traffic, convenient truck parking, no stop signs and improved productivity by using toll roads. The newly-released PrePass whitepaper, “A Guide to Trucking Toll Costs in America,” tell you how toll facilities operate and why rates continue to climb. The paper also reveals how fleets can avoid tolling pitfalls and actually save money.
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