CVSA Brake Safety Week

CVSA Brake Safety Week

CVSA Brake Safety Week will take place on September 15–21, 2019. In an effort to emphasize the seriousness of faulty brake systems, CVSA-certified enforcement personnel wi ll conduct roadside inspections to identify – and place Out-of-Service – commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) with critical brake violations. Vehicles with critical brake violations, or other critical vehicle inspection item violations,…

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Personal Conveyance Use

Personal Conveyance Use

We’re often asked by our clients about when it’s okay and when it’s not okay to use “Personal Conveyance”, or “PC” mode. So, we decided to create this primer to help clear up many of the common misconceptions out there. What is Personal Conveyance? Personal conveyance is simply the movement of a commercial motor vehicle…

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New FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse

FMCSA Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse

The new FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse will impact every trucking company and driver in the US. Are you ready for these new regulations? Beginning January 6, 2020 all US motor carriers will have to change the way that they qualify and monitor drivers for the use of drugs and alcohol. What is the FMCSA…

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FMCSA Crash Preventability Program

FMCSA's FMCSA's Crash Preventability Program

Crash preventability has long weighed heavy on the arguments against the effectiveness of the FMCSA’s CSA 2010 enforcement program. Currently the FMCSA takes every crash that a trucking company is involved in into consideration when determining how safely a motor carrier is operating. Many believe that this is unfair, especially when this includes crashes that…

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CVSA Road Check 2017 Starts Today!!

road check 2017

Road check 2017 begins today and ends on Thursday, June 8.   The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) 30th annual International Road Check is a 3 day safety blitz that has large truck and bus inspectors from coast to coast out reviewing carriers across the continent. During this 72-hour period, CVSA-certified commercial motor vehicle inspectors…

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FMCSA Compliance Reviews Spike 27%!

compliance review

Compliance reviews conducted by the FMCSA and their state DOT partners have spiked 27% through the first 4 months of 2017, according to our research! After reviewing the FMCSA A&I online thoroughly (because I’m a huge geek), we’ve found that our suspicions were true. I have felt, through business growth and from others in the…

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Breaking News: FMCSA Kills SFD Changes!

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The FMCSA just announced that it is withdrawing its controversial safety fitness determination (SFD) rulemaking issued in January 2016 and will also cancel plans to issue a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) announced back in January to help support the SFD effort. Per the FMCSA: “The new methodology would have determined when a motor carrier is not fit to…

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Breaking News: CVSA RoadCheck 2017

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) 30th annual International Roadcheck will take place on June 6-8.   Over the 72-hour period, CVSA-certified commercial motor vehicle inspectors in the US, Mexico and Canada will conduct about 73,000 truck or bus inspections. On average, around 17 inspections per minute will be completed during the safety blitz.  …

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DOT Adding New Drugs To 5-Panel

DOT drug testing

According to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) released in the Federal Register today, The Department of Transportation is proposing to amend its drug testing program regulations to add four new prescription medications (hydrocodone, hydromorphone, oxymorphone, and oxycodone) to its drug-testing panel. Additionally, they are proposing to add methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA) as an initial test analyte and…

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Disrupting DOT Drug and Alcohol Testing

FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse

Too many trucking companies are at risk of being shut down due to their DOT drug and alcohol testing programs (or lack of having one)! The evidence is clear when we are still seeing around 45% of all acute compliance violations being related to drug and alcohol regulations. While other management programs currently exist and…

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