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Top 15 most intense states for maintenance, brake violations

Updated with 2019 data, find more insight here on what truckers can expect of -- and where expect it from -- law enforcement during 2020 Brake Safety Week.

October 13, 2015

PBBT unit at GA scale house inspection

Truck driver occupational fatalities in 2014 at highest level since 2008

Work-related truck driver fatalities rose to their highest level since 2008 last year, according to a report issued by the Department of Labor this week. About 725 heavy vehicle or tractor-trailer drivers died on the job last year, according to the report.

September 23, 2015

Get it right, Howard

Wendy on former Transport Topics editor Howard Abramson’s recent “Trucks are killing us” editorial: “Highway safety can’t be delegated to one group only, and lack of it can’t be faulted to just one.”

August 23, 2015

“Outta my way, I got places to go, people to kill. “

Wisconsin: Targeting enforcement for violations

Only one state does it better — or in many truckers’ perspectives, worse — than Wisconsin. With more than 3 violations written for every inspection performed in 2014, the state closed in on category leader Connecticut.

August 6, 2015

Wisconsin follows only Connecticut in the violation intensity of its individual inspections, with more than three violations issued for every inspection performed. The good news? Truckers traveling through the state are relatively unlikely to receive an inspection, given Wisconsin’s inspection intensity ranking falls in the latter half of states and behind all neighboring states.

Audit of FMCSA shows agency needs to make improvements to CSA, carrier intervention

The DOT’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability program is out of sync with real-word crash risk and needs to be realigned to better predict carrier safety, says a report made public this week.

June 30, 2015

Fmcsa Will Use Roadside Inspection Data, Among Other Sources, To Produce Absolute Scores For Carriers Once The Final Version Of The Safety Fitness Determination Rule Is Implemented

Brad Kuhn presents ‘You never know what’s going to come at you’

A close shave: “The driver said that he started to hydroplane and lost control. I’m glad that he jack knifed or it may have gotten ugly.”

June 16, 2015

Brad Kuhn dashcam still

Thursday ‘share the road’ trio

Local Tennessee paper instructs motorists on safety around big trucks, large Georgia newspaper likens crash victims to casualties of war, and a little good news on Virginia port investment to combat congestion.

May 21, 2015

‘Tired truckers’ back in the headlines — and the limits, benefits of safety technology

Whatever comes of active driver-assist safety technologies in the near future, it will remain an aware driver that is the bedrock of all trucking safety.

May 14, 2015

trucks On I-20-59

Reckless four-wheelers, bad road design…: Two factors, among others, in many truck rollovers

A recent mainstream-media report reinforces what many truckers know about truck-occupant and other fatality numbers, too: There’s more to them than meets the eye.

March 31, 2015

Crash that shut down I-95 charged to four-wheeler; more vids from Chris Fiffie

“Every once in a while they get it right in the end,” says a reader. Also: new Rolling CB Interviews from Chris Fiffie in our updated playlist.

March 12, 2015

overturned tanker

Indiana’s vanishing clean inspections, further speed scrutiny

Indiana ranks No. 5 nationwide for the smallest percentage of clean inspections.

January 2, 2015

WHERE IT’S MOST DIFFICULT TO IMPROVE CSA SCORES | For more detail on where the states fall in rankings of their likelihood to issue a totally violation-free inspection, click through the above map or follow this link.

The regs: Threading the needle through 2014

Part 2 in this Channel 19 year in review highlights the most-read stories from the blog this year having to do with regulations — and their enforcement. CARB, insurance, CSA, hours…

December 29, 2014

Click through the image for comprehensive data on rates of inspections, out of service orders and CSA BASIC percentile rankings organized according to carrier size — data from inception of CSA program through calendar year 2012.

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