Last blog I touched briefly on a new and different way to look at truck driver recruitment and training. This blog proposes how to structure a graduated training level and skill development.

The first level of skill development is the 12 to 20 days of training at an accredited truck driving school using a recognized syllabus with the student achieving all of the necessary rudimentary skills to acquire the Commercial Drivers License (CDL) although in reality, this 12 to 20 days must be increased to at a very minimum one full 90 day semester. ... Read More

The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida recently handed down a decision concerning spoliation of evidence as it related to the failure to preserve data from a truck’s Electronic/Engine Control Module (ECM) following a fatal collision.

I originally wrote this concept about seven or eight years ago but through upgrading computers and equipment, somehow it's been lost in the shuffle and I've been asked for it on several occasions so I am redoing the whole thing from scratch. While it maybe somewhat differently worded than the original even expanded upon the concept and basic tenets are still here. Notwithstanding the shake-up of the trucking industry in 2001, there is still and always will be a shortage of drivers to move the continent's freight.... Read More

Recently I purchased a bottle of baby lotion, because I like the smell of the pink stuff they put on babies. For some reason I looked at the back of the bottle and the warning label surprised me, “keep out of reach of children.” REALLY? Where would you set the bottle if you were applying the lotion to your baby?... Read More

February 1, 2012 just after 8 am Amtrak train 351 rounds a curve near Leoni, Michigan and the engineer puts the brakes in emergency and hits the floor. Blocking the train's path at a crossing is a low boy trailer hauling machinery and it's not moving. Upon impact the trailer is destroyed, the locomotive and two cars are derailed and heavily damaged. The miracle is that there were no serious injuries. The truck driver and several Amtrak passengers were taken to a local hospital, treated and released.... Read More

Carriers are still attempting to lead CSA rather than follow CSA. That is the failure of the FMCSA. It is almost like the FMCSA is setting up carriers for the fall. The traps have been loaded and as soon as they see a carrier cross this imaginary line, which has proven not to be the threshold line, they hit the carrier hard.... Read More