Does your company have a policy that prohibits dispatchers from assigning drivers a load that cannot be completed without speeding? Take a look at the SMC on the FMCSA website for the Unsafe Driving BASIC and make sure all necessary processes, management, and controls are in place to prevent and address unsafe driving practices. ... Read More

The FMCSA is demanding perfection from drivers and carriers, but the question is…can anyone demand perfection from them? This agency is running amuck! DOT agents have admitted it is impossible for a driver to drive across our country without breaking one kind of law or another. ... Read More

The word is finally out to the drivers across America that 77% of carriers said they expect to raise driver pay over the next 12 months. Recruiters are saying come over to our company and we will pay you more. Recruiters are calling drivers, stopping them at fuel depots, and talking to them anywhere and anyway they can. Driver’s wives are taking calls and recruiters are visiting drivers at their homes.... Read More

Something is driving a higher turnover in trucking right now, at 106%, it is the highest it has been this year. I don't know if drivers are finding more money, or if the companies they have worked for finally began forcing drivers to work under the CSA rules they have hid from them in the past.... Read More

With the ever-growing driver shortage looming, many motor carriers are lowering their hiring standards to fill their empty trucks. No company wants to turn down a job because they don’t have drivers to service the account. But while to some extent you’re at the mercy of supply and demand, you still have to keep the potential for negligent hiring lawsuits top of mind.... Read More

A recent study conducted by a large carrier showed that as much as 60% of logbook violations are a direct result of errors and omissions. These errors and omissions are costing drivers and carriers hundreds of millions a year in driver down time, fines and the purchasing of EOBR's thru satisfying FMCSA requests. ... Read More

The message on my cell phone recorded a cry for help. I returned the call to the lady who told me she was a trucker and she was all alone. She then asked do you know about truck drivers. Three months had passed since she had been stopped on an interstate in Georgia. According to our transportation laws she had done some things wrong but that was not enough for the officer who stopped her. He had decided to make a couple of additional charges against her of his own.... Read More

We all grew up with them. Most of us who care about our children enforce them. We even named some of them GOLDEN. But never before in the history of the United States of America have we had a set of rules that were so strong that law enforcement officers enforced them.