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Safety & Compliance: Page 4
Maintenance
Get dinged during Roadcheck? Know your rights
Out of service criteria is fairly black and white and not open to interpretation, but inspectors do make mistakes.
May 16, 2024
Maintenance
How to help drivers pass a DOT inspection
Over the last three years, roughly 6% of all drivers inspected have been parked with a violation during CVSA's Roadcheck.
May 2, 2024
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Components
How to ensure brakes pass DOT roadside inspection
Barring an unforeseen statistical anomaly, brake violations will be among the top equipment out of service violations found during Roadcheck.
May 2, 2024
Components
How to ensure your tires pass roadside DOT inspection
From tread depth to road gators, tires are a big problem during DOT inspections.
May 2, 2024
Maintenance
How to ensure your lights pass roadside DOT inspection
The top equipment violation last year, with somewhere around 300,000 nationwide, was lighting devices.
May 2, 2024
Regulations
How to pass a roadside inspection: CVSA answers Roadcheck questions
CVSA Roadside Inspection Specialist Jeremy Disbrow offers an instructional how-to on passing commercial vehicle roadside inspections.
May 2, 2024
Safety & Compliance
Roadcheck puts trailer protection, substance abuse in its crosshairs
CVSA will kick off its International Roadcheck blitz in about a month with tractor protection controls in the air system and alcohol and controlled substance possession getting special focus.
April 15, 2024
Cybersecurity
Research highlights vulnerabilities in ELD cybersecurity
A group of researchers from Colorado State University recently published a paper that details cybersecurity threat vectors surrounding one of the most used devices in the cab of a truck: the electronic logging device.
April 5, 2024
Regulations
Truck efficiency 101
In this data-rich world we live in, it seems like a fairly simple thing to start measuring the delays others cause that drivers have to deal with.
April 1, 2024
Maintenance
Are you Roadcheck ready? CCJ hosting AMA-style fireside chat with CVSA
Roughly two weeks before the Roadcheck 2024 campaign kicks off, CCJ will host a complementary "Ask Me Anything" session with a CVSA Roadside Inspection Specialist.
March 26, 2024
Regulations
Spending bill retools under-21 pilot rules
The apprenticeship program was capped at 3,000 participating drivers at any one time but, to date, only three dozen have enrolled.
March 11, 2024
Regulations
Seeking equilibrium in trucking policies is a balancing act
Since the end of the pandemic, the trucking industry has been inundated with an onslaught of rules, shifts in practice and policy pushes that further threaten the stability and effectiveness of the nation’s supply chain.
February 20, 2024
Regulations
FMCSA admin Hutcheson stepping down after 16 months on the job
Hutcheson had served administrator since September 2022 – the first full-time administrator in three years.
January 19, 2024
Perspectives
Trucking companies should urge state regulators to expand distracted driving laws
The trucking industry is taking the biggest hit as nuclear verdicts cases rise, but hopefully the industry can see some relief as more states expand distracted driving laws to more heavily impact passenger car drivers.
January 16, 2024
Safety & Compliance
A fireside chat about ELDs in the U.S. and Canada
Solera recently hosted a webinar with its regulatory compliance experts to share details on the most recent regulations implemented by the FMCSA, best practices for roadside inspections and the differences between U.S. and Canadian ELDs.
January 14, 2024
Driver/operator coaching/training
Tips for driving in winter weather conditions
Twenty-four percent of weather-related accidents occur on snowy, slushy or ice-covered roadways, and 70% of America’s roads are located in snowy regions that receive more than five inches annually. AIM's safety manager offers tips for winter weather.
December 15, 2023
Regulations
FMCSA Administrator grilled in Congress over speed-limiter mandate pursuit
House Highways and Transit subcommittee Republicans took a Wednesday hearing opportunity in part to attack DOT agency heads over pursuit of "ancillary policies" like the speed-limiter mandate not prioritized in 2021 infrastructure funding legislation.
December 14, 2023
Safety & Compliance
GAO recommendations would improve motor carrier safety
Recommendations to the FMCSA pertaining to its National Consumer Complaint Database could help improve its response to safety concerns and improve transparency and collaboration with industry partners.
November 15, 2023
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