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Healthcare Reform: Pay or Play
With the Affordable Care Act requiring individuals to have health insurance, trucking companies may face penalties or fees for not providing affordable plans for employees or eliminating plans altogether.

By Kirsti Correa
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), which requires individuals to have health insurance, could change the way trucking companies handle their healthcare coverage policies for employees. The Truckload Carriers Association held a webinar on May 23 to discuss its analysis of the ACA and the impact it will have on the trucking industry.

7 Tips for Teaching New Log Rules

By HDT partner, Today's Trucking
New hours of service rules go into effect July 1. Are you ready? The American Trucking Associations has published an easy-to-use, free tipsheet to help you help your drivers understand the new HOS rules.

Safety&Compliance: Beware these background screening pitfalls
If you're not careful about how you disqualify driver applicants based on background checks and felony convictions, you could land in hot water.

By Deborah Lockridge
If you haven't taken a look at your driver hiring and screening procedures in a while, it's time for a thorough review to avoid running afoul of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

How Does CSA Affect Small Carriers?
The size of the carrier is not a factor in deciding which carriers the FMCSA will investigate, but size is a factor in how carrier scores are calculated.
<p>The scoring in the system is based on roadside inspections, violations listed on roadside inspection reports, and crash reports.</p>

<p>The scoring in the system is based on roadside inspections, violations listed on roadside inspection reports, and crash reports.</p>

By Thomas Bray, Editor, J.J. Keller & Associates
Despite all of the folklore that has been built around it, at its core, CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) is simply a program used by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to track and evaluate carriers based on compliance and crash history. Carriers that do not score well in the system are the ones FMCSA will spend time warning or investigating.

Inspector Detector
A fleet consultant shares his best-practices tips on driver vehicle inspections

By Deborah Lockridge
Required driver pre-trip inspections have garnered more attention under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new Compliance, Safety, Accountability enforcement program. And it’s not only the actual inspections you need to think about – it’s also the paperwork component.

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Nextraq Offers New Online Driver Education Courses The company said these courses are designed to enable businesses to develop a comprehensive strategy to address driver education and driver safety issues.

Inthinc Adds Electronic Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports to Fleet Management Solution Inthinc said it developed this addition to its software in accordance with U.S. and Canadian federal safety rules and regulations for commercial carriers.

Philips Respironics Goes Mobile with SleepMapper App Philips Respironics, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics, announced the launch of the SleepMapper self-management system, a mobile and Web-based solution for patients diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea that combines the components of feedback, education and troubleshooting.

J.J. Keller Unveils Handbook for Hazmat Drivers J.J. Keller & Associates Inc. announced its latest publication – Hazmat Handbook: The Complete Guide for CMV Drivers. This compact handbook was created exclusively for hazmat drivers and provides answers to key safety and compliance questions.

RealVNC Enables Wi-Fi on Rand McNally HD100 Rand McNally has integrated RealVNC’s remote access technology into its HD 100 devices, which lets drivers view the display of the HD 100 through an application on their Wi-Fi-enabled Rand McNally IntelliRoute TND GPS or mobile device.