THE POINT: Learn from your data and use it to minimize risk. TRUCKING RISK…LEARN FROM THE DATA Trucking Data. Every day you are drinking from the fire hose of data coming off that information system we call “a truck”. However, that data can be invaluable, particularly if you learn from it and act on it […]

Safe practices are being punished.  Companies’ post-accident safety analysis is exposed for use against them in law suits. It shouldn’t be.  i doesn’t have to be. The problem—post-accident analysis and the remedial actions taken by trucking companies are generally both discoverable and admissible.  Not only do you have to turn them over during law suit, […]

The FMCSA proposes to eliminate the rule requiring drivers to annually certify their violations, 49 CFR 391.27.  The proposed elimination is based upon that section being largely duplicative of the requirement that a carrier annually run a driver’s MVR per section 391.25(a) which is retained. While retaining Section 391.25(a), the proposed regulation amends it to […]