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Personal Conveyance: How and When to Use It

21 Apr 2022
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Joel Beal
Personal conveyance: How and when to use it Ryan Witkowski With strict regulations for hours-of-service, the use of personal conveyance can be an important tool for truckers. However, it can be a confusing area for some. Personal conveyance is used to account for the movement of...
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Deciphering the Motor Carrier Rating: What Does It All Mean?

25 Jan 2022
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Joel Beal
Motor Carriers can often find themselves in a frustrating scenario trying to defend why they do not have a current “SATISFACTORY” safety rating. It is understandable to question a motor carrier’s safety rating when they are currently “CONDITIONAL” or even “UNSATISFACTORY.”...
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Is your fleet ready for 3G sunset?

22 Dec 2021
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Joel Beal
A good article by Deborah Lockridge here.
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Top Recordkeeping FAQs on CMV Vehicle Inspections and Maintenance

02 Nov 2021
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Daren Hansen Commercial vehicle inspections are critical to highway safety. Yet safety managers, mechanics, and drivers frequently have questions about the paperwork they need to fill out and retain. We’ll look at some of their commonly asked questions about vehicle...
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Roadmap for Maximizing Returns on Your Investment in Cameras and Telematics

25 Oct 2021
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Joel Beal
Dennis J. Junk Interested in cameras and telematics for your fleet but not sure where to begin? Well, here we’re going to walk you through the whole process, at a high level, of planning and implementation. This should give you an idea what you’ll be getting into,...
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Breaking Free: The history of the owner-operator in trucking

25 Oct 2021
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Todd Dills The owner-operator of yesteryear struggled to prosper amid a complex web of Teamster pressures and over-regulation. Shutdowns and other conflicts lined the highway that led to today’s climate in which the self-employed contractor is integral to the industry and able to...
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33 Reasons For Not Seeing

29 Sep 2021
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Joel Beal
Marc Green Viewers often fail to see objects, such as pedestrians and other vehicles. Such failures-to-see have great importance in safety as well as in many other domains such marketing, medicine, and sports, and elsewhere. I have discussed seeing in general and why...
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“DEFENSE” DOES NOT MEAN “DEFENSIVE”

27 Sep 2021
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Doug Marcello A major failing in trucking “defense” is that is seen as synonymous with “defensive”. Too often trucking companies and their insurers hunker down after the accident, waiting for the bill board attorney to make their move. Worse yet, even after receiving the...
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Mileage between breakdowns rises, but so do repair costs

20 Sep 2021
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Jim Stinson Dive Brief: Labor costs for repair and maintenance increased 2.6% between Q1 and Q2, according to Decisiv’s and the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council’s North American Service Event Benchmark Report. Overall, cost of...
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How cameras change the narrative on truck driver safety

07 Jul 2021
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Joel Beal
Fleets using in-cab cameras said they pay for themselves within months, as video exonerates drivers in crashes and drops insurance premiums. Jim Stinson When Keith Wilson proposed having an in-cab camera system for the trucks at Sharp Transport, the idea did not go over well with...
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