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October 7th, 2020
Team Communications Improve Trucking Safety
Motor carriers can improve safety through team communications. Management – equal to a daily “command center” – must set open, transparent communication among all employees as the standard. With the business goal of delivering freight safely and on time, management should underscore that safety of drivers and all employees, vehicles, freight and the public sharing the roads is a personal commitment each team member owes to the other.
Blog
January 2nd, 2020
Unpredictable Weather Calls for Predictable Trucking Resources
Winter or summer, springtime floods or tropical storms in the fall, Mother Nature has predictably unpredictable conditions to throw at us. Plan in advance for alternate routes and parking locations if the regular road is closed and the usual truck parking is filled. Know in advance where road construction is planned. Have a reliable response ready when faced with unreliable weather conditions.
Blog, Safety
April 24th, 2019
New Guide Explains Trucking and Related Trade Associations
“Ya’ can’t tell the players without a scorecard!” is the repeated cry of fans at baseball games. Scorecards tell many […]
Blog, Business
February 11th, 2019
Register Now: Webinar Helps You Hire Safe Drivers and Reduce Legal Risks
It’s one of the worst things that can happen to a trucking company. The phone rings with someone telling you […]
Blog, Business, Safety
September 1st, 2017
How the Trucking Community Can Help Hurricane Harvey Victims
The images and stories coming out the Houston area this past week have been devastating. In the wake of Hurricane […]
Blog, News, Trucking Community
October 11th, 2023
FMCSA Overhaul of Key Truck Safety Program Begins
UPDATED – The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to potentially redo the Safety Fitness Determination process, which is part of its comprehensive Compliance, Safety, Accountability truck safety program. The SFD process can result in a declaration that a motor carrier is unfit and thereby prohibited from operating commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce. This ANPRM falls hard on the heels of the FMCSA notice proposing to change its Safety Measurement System.
Blog, Regulations, Safety
September 27th, 2023
Taking Control of Speeding in Your Truck Fleet
Trucking will face a continual flow of regulations so long as highway safety deteriorates. And many of those regulations will attempt to control some aspect of speed and speeding because speeding is one of the most frequent reasons cars and trucks are pulled over and simple physics tells us that crashes at higher speeds are more deadly and damaging.
Blog, Safety, Trucking Community
July 27th, 2023
FMCSA Finalizes Guidance on Freight Brokerage Definitions
Are you working with a broker, a bona fide agent, or a dispatch service? As a motor carrier, who you choose as a business partner can have legal and financial repercussions. That, in part, motivated the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to issue its final guidance on the definitions appropriate to those entities.
Blog, Regulations, Trucking Community
July 5th, 2023
Preparing for the Arrival of Electronic Truck Inspections
Commercial vehicle enforcement agencies are launching a push for thorough pre-trip and wireless roadside inspections, ushering in a new era for truck inspections. To comply with these new commercial vehicle regulations, carriers may need to install devices that can transmit information on the condition and identity of the truck and driver to roadside enforcement. In a recent webinar, PrePass presented pertinent questions to answer before Universal Identification rules possibly take effect.
Blog, Regulations, Safety, Technology
May 1st, 2023
New Whitepaper: How to Prevent a Truck Crash from Becoming a Catastrophe
In the new PrePass whitepaper, “How to Prevent a Truck Crash from Becoming a Catastrophe,” motor carriers will learn that fleets have distinct advantages when truck-involved accidents do occur. Principal among those advantages is that the motor carrier, through its truck drivers, often knows about the accident first and can take photos and gather facts before others — and their attorneys — ever get involved.
Blog, Regulations, Safety
January 30th, 2023
New Year’s Resolution: Listen to the Drivers
When we listen to truck drivers throughout the industry, we learn about many opportunities for improvement. Listening is exactly what the American Transportation Research Institute does every year in its Top Industry Issues survey. In 2022, over 4,200 industry stakeholders across North America responded to the ATRI survey. The largest percentage of respondents, 42.7%, were professional truck drivers.
Blog, Trucking Community
August 11th, 2022
So What If My Truck Is a Little Overweight? Part 2.
The rationale for truck size and weight limits does not designate what those size and weight limits should be. That’s because we do live in a world of innovation. Different parts of the country and different industries see the need for regional or industry-specific truck size and weight limits.
Blog, Regulations, Safety