Safety and Compliance

Safety and Compliance
Practicing safety: Resist complacency
It’s as important as ever to resist the tendency to overlook otherwise repetitive tasks necessary for a safe trucking operation on-highway, aka "safety complacency." These are a but a few things that fall on your shoulders to maintain.
January 1, 2025
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Safety and Compliance
6 pre- and post-trip inspection myths, and reality
Owner-operators know how important inspections are, but much of the conventional wisdom around inspections is more fiction than fact, which in some cases can lead to OOS violations.
January 1, 2025
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Safety and Compliance
Following the rules of the road, and how they follow you: Inspections, violations and safety scores
The cat's long been out of the bag on federal safety scoring within the CSA program. Managing inspection, violation and crash data associated with your business starts with minding the small stuff with respect to maintenance and other rules of the road.
January 1, 2025
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Safety and Compliance
Significant hours of service change: FMCSA's 2020 split-sleeper provision changes, explained
Most owner-operators feel professional truckers should be able to "split as they see fit," yet current rules at least allow for ways to get hours of rest during the workday without penalizing yourself on time available to drive.
January 1, 2025
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Safety and Compliance
What's appropriate as 'personal conveyance' in the logbook or ELD under the hours rules?
This video, part of the Trucking Law series originally, explains regulatory guidance around "personal conveyance," making clear what is/isn't acceptable off-duty movement of the truck under the hours of service.
January 1, 2025
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Safety and Compliance
How to challenge erroneous violation and crash data: FMCSA's DataQs system
Challenging erroneously assigned inspections or crashes, or incorrectly written violations and those tied to citations thrown out in a court of law ... if you're an independent owner-operator with motor carrier authority, it's your responsibility.
January 1, 2025
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Safety and Compliance
Preventable or not? When to use DataQs to request crash reviews for preventability
A "nonpreventable" judgment excludes the crash from computation of the CSA scores associated with your business/leasing motor carrier's record in the system, thus ensuring you're not penalized for an accident you had no way of preventing.
January 1, 2025
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Two weeks left to enter Overdrive's 2025 Small Fleet Championship
Time is running out! Test your trucking mettle for a chance to take home the 2025 title belt in Overdrive's Small Fleet Championship, with entries open through July 31. Four finalist fleets will ultimately square off in Nashville in late October at event sponsor NASTC's annual conference. Fleets of 3 to 30 trucks are eligible to compete.
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