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Insurance 101
You should pay special attention to every component that can affect any part of your insurance program. Generally speaking these are the drivers, equipment and contract Master Service Agreements with shippers to ensure any problems are resolved before they happen....
Safety Policy Expiration Date
When did you last review and revise your company’s driver/vehicle safety policy? What is it’s “expiration date”? Creating an effective, enforceable safety policy to govern how drivers drive, how vehicles get maintained, what to do in the case of a crash and so on is...
Because I Said So
Lord knows I heard this a million times from mom and dad when I was growing up. Being the mischievous child that I was, it was well justified. But one thing I can always remember wanting was a real reason. It wasn’t even that I ultimately disagreed with my parents...
ATA Congressional Testimony: The Impact of the Hours of Service Regulations
ATA Congressional Testimony: HOS
Superior Selection or Excellent OTR Training?
Do you build a high performing team through superior selection or excellent OTR training? Remember the old proverb: you can teach a squirrel to fly but you’re better off starting with an eagle? There’s truth there, but there aren’t as many eagles flying around as...
Digging into the MVR – For Stronger Results
There’s no question that fleets need to review driver abstracts (or Motor Vehicle Reports – MVRs) on their drivers to identify any trend or pattern in past moving violations. The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has connected the links between...
How do you track the invisible?
by Avery Vise in Down the Road On New Year’s Eve, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced that it had shut down two affiliated South Carolina trucking operations and the owner-driver of one of them as “imminent hazards to public safety.” The agency’s...
Get Ready to Say Goodbye to Paper Logs
FMCSA PROPOSES MANDATORY ELECTRONIC LOGGING DEVICES. April 2014, TruckingInfo.com - Feature By Oliver Patton After 28 years of proposals, studies, drafts, revisions, legal battles and technological innovations – not to mention an Act of Congress – federal regulators...
Critical Issues in Trucking
Critical Issues in Trucking E-Book.
The awful truth about multitasking
Dear Direct Response Letter Subscriber: When the Winter Olympics were on, my wife watched it devotedly. But she also did social media and e-mail on her laptop at the same time. "You're going to miss the performance," I said while figure skating was on. "I can...