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A Detailed Analysis of the DOT Clearinghouse Rule for CDL Driver Drug and Alcohol Results The Department of Transportation is establishing a central database to contain all of the relevant drug and alcohol testing information for commercial drivers. Called the Commercial Driver’s License Drug...

Why Carriers should be Concerned about the Food Safety Modernization Act STF Rule The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) proposed the Food Safety Modernization Act - Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food (FSMA STF) rule in 2013 and a final rule was published April 6, 2016. By April...

What’s A PSP Report? Here’s How Drivers And Carriers Use It To Their Advantage An individual driver may order their own PSP report. The advantage to doing so periodically is to verify the data that a potential employer will see. Incorrect data can be challenged. The Pre-employment Screening...

How Small Motor Carriers Are Handling The Current Business Environment In the last 12 months, the trucking industry has seen some major regulatory changes during a slow recovery out of the Great Recession. Motor carriers are facing new regulatory rules covering hours of service, speed limiters...

Best Practices When Preparing For A DOT Safety Audit The FMCSA’s Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA) guarantees most every motor carrier will be scrutinized for safety compliance on a monthly basis. With scrutiny adds to your chances of being audited. Your company can go from a hero in safety...

Trucking Score System Could Get You Pulled Over For An Inspection With so much talk about CSA scores, many truckers may not be aware that there is another score system that is used to rate the likelihood of a truck to be selected for an inspection. This score system is known as the ISS score...

With the new Electronic Logging Device (ELD) rule mandating carriers to have an ELD to record HOS and performance in the near future, questions have risen as to what kind of carriers and drivers are subject to this rule. The most common exemption to the new ELD mandate applies to carriers who...

On July 20th, an Oregon appeals court ruled that owner-operators leased to Portland, OR company CEVA Freight are independent contractors according to Oregon state law and not company employees. This ruling frees the carrier from paying unemployment tax, and other certain taxes, on the...

With driver appreciation week next week, I want to salute a truck driver that Keeps America Moving. According to a FlashAlert sent out Wednesday, Eric Tackett of Sutherlin, OR dropped off a load of drywall on his way to Salem to collect his $9.4 million and his oversized check. “It was on the...

Last week FMCSA’s Medical Review Board outlined recommendations they hope to require truckers to be screened for sleep apnea. Based on these preliminary recommendations, which FMCSA has no legal requirement to adopt any of the suggestions but likely lean on them when developing a sleep apnea...

Thanks everyone. We have a retired DOT Inspector as our Safety Dept Manager. He also mentioned Cargo Securement and their perspective on what they look for: 1. Indirect vs. Direct (Weight Load Limit - WLL) Direct securement is a method where the securement device goes from the trailer to the...

1. What DOT Inspector Screens Show When Drivers Near A Weigh-Station As you near a weigh -station, DOT inspectors are pulling drivers’ basic information up on their screens. There are three things inspectors look for first: ISS (Inspection Selection System) score, vehicle out-of-service score...

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My focus here is to educate drivers, talk about compliance issues, learn about drivers worries and other compliance issues, etc. I do not plan on posting any links, just have discussions. You can view my profile on various social sites if desired and notice all the articles are being written by...

Hey all, I will be posting on trucking compliance and safety. Let me know if there are any topics you have questions about! HOS, ELDs, etc

This article was written by one of our staff on his experience with Trucking Compliance and Safety (or lack there of) in the Bakken Oil Fields. Have anyone else experienced crazy compliance/safety issues while on the road? During my first couple of months of driving water trucks in the Bakken...